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etherboot - Makes boot ROMS

Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMS for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86 PCs over a network using Internet Protocols, i.e. bootp/DHCP and tftp. Etherboot is normally used for for booting PCs diskless, which is particularly usefule with clusters, routers, remote servers, and machines working in environments that are unfriendly to disks.

Etherboot usually boots computers faster than from a disk because there are no delays in spinning up disks, etc. It can work with RAM disks, NFS filesystems, or even local disks. Compared to booting from solid-state devices, it has the advantage of centralising maintainance. The tradeoff is dependence on a server, but this can be partly alleviated by having redundant servers. See the home page for a complete list of hardware and configuration needed to run Etherboot.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://etherboot.sourceforge.net/
Source tarballhttp://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/etherboot/etherboot-5.2.4.tar.gz
Version 5.2.4 (stable) released on 2004-02-25
Version 5.3.7 (devel) released on 2004-03-29
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual available from http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/doc/html/userman/t1.html; User tutorial available from http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/doc/html/diskless/t1.html; Developers manual available in HTML format from http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/doc/html/devman/t1.html
Support contacts

Help List<etherboot-users@users.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-users
Developer List<etherboot-developers@users.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-developers
Bug Listhttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=4233

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors

Related information

Source repositoryhttp://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=4233
Interfacescommand line
ProgramsmkQNXnbi, atftp, Wake-On-LAN, tftp, ppmtoansi, mkffwnb, tftp-hpa
Source languagesC, Perl, x86 assembly
Build prerequisitesbinutils

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-04-26
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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