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etherboot
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.
Last updated 17 Nov, 2004
About
Leadership
- Ken Yap - Maintainer
- Klaus Espenlaub - Contributor
- Georg Baum - Contributor
- Marty Connor - Contributor
Requirements
- binutils (Build Prerequisite)
Related Projects
Subprograms
mkQNXnbi, atftp, Wake-On-LAN, tftp, ppmtoansi, mkffwnb, tftp-hpa
Versions
5.3.9
5.3.9 devel released 2004-08-19
- Released: 19 Aug, 2004
- Code Maturity: Developmental
5.2.6
5.2.6 stable released 2004-11-17
- Released: 17 Nov, 2004
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/etherboot/et...
- Licenses: GPLv2
- Interfaces: Command Line
User Community and Support
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