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Not to be confused with Apple NetBoot or Installation (computer programs) § Network installation.
Network booting, shortened netboot, is the process of booting a computer from a network rather than a local drive. This method of booting can be used by routers, diskless workstations and centrally managed computers (thin clients) such as public computers at libraries and schools.
Network booting can be used to centralize management of disk storage, which supporters claim can result in reduced capital and maintenance costs. It can also be used in cluster computing, in which nodes may not have local disks.
In the late 1980s/early 1990s, network boot was used to save the expense of a disk drive, because a decently sized harddisk would still cost thousands of dollars, often equaling the price of the CPU.[citation needed]
Networkbooting, shortened netboot, is the process of booting a computer from a network rather than a local drive. This method of booting can be used...
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the booting process. As with the second-stage boot loader, networkbooting begins by using generic network access methods provided by the network interface's...
GRUB for booting (e.g. SUSE Linux), the same holds true for OpenBSD. For booting from iSCSI iPXE can be used as a UEFI application loaded by U-Boot. Intel's...
system booting, installation and deployment. Since the beginning of computer networks, there has been a persistent need for client systems which can boot appropriate...
option ROMs completely determine the boot priority between adapter cards that are enabled for booting, and the boot devices supported by the motherboard...
Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer...
One of its primary uses is in the early stages of nodes booting from a local area network. TFTP has been used for this application because it is very...
(re-flashing) the existing standard PXE ROM on a supported network interface card (NIC), or by booting the NIC's standard PXE ROM and then chainloading into...
workstation or personal computer without disk drives, which employs networkbooting to load its operating system from a server. (A computer may also be...
off the iSCSI remote boot process, using the bootingnetwork interface's MAC address to direct the computer to the correct iSCSI boot target[citation needed]...
NetworkBootable Image (NBI) is a legacy format that wraps operating system images to makes it possible for Etherboot to load the images directly. NBI...
interface cards as well as system boards with on-board network interfaces, thus allowing direct networkbooting. The BOOTP was first defined in September 1985...
dnsmasq supports modern Internet standards such as IPv6 and DNSSEC, networkbooting with support for BOOTP, PXE and TFTP and also Lua scripting. Some Internet...
to run IBM's AIX operating system and their ROM specifically prevented booting the classic Mac OS. This makes them the last non-Macintosh desktop computers...
in the boot sector itself or by other programs loaded through the boot process. A non-disk device such as a network adapter attempts booting by a procedure...
The booting process of Microsoft Windows varies between different releases. In Windows versions 1.01 to Windows 2.11, the system was loaded when WIN.COM...
anything on any of the machines, by simply booting one machine (the server) from the CD, and PXE booting the rest of the machines. Diskless node A diskless...
controller drivers as with the Windows PE Capture boot image. The system is booted using PXE networkbooting and the Windows PE Apply image is loaded. The...
systems over a network. NIM is analogous to Kickstart in the Linux world. NIM is a client-server system in which a NIM server provides a boot image to client...
NetBoot was a technology from Apple which enabled Macs with capable firmware (i.e. New World ROM) to boot from a network, rather than a local hard disk...
storage area networks (SANs) use Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) over Fibre Channel connections. Also, for embedded systems, networkbooting, and servers...
The Linux booting process involves multiple stages and is in many ways similar to the BSD and other Unix-style boot processes, from which it derives....
p. 188. ISBN 9780789730626. "Hardware Troubleshooting: Cold Booting Versus Warm Booting". Support. Microsoft. 7 July 2005. Archived from the original...
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