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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 or optical disc drive . NetBoot is a derived work from the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP), and is similar in concept to the Preboot Execution Environment .
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.
This installation mode performs a network installation or "frugal install" without a CD, similar to that performed by the Win32-Loader. [4]UNetbootin's distinguishing features are its support for a great variety of Linux distributions, its portability, its ability to load custom disk image (including ISO image) files, and its support for both Windows and Linux. [5]
Boot Service Discovery Protocol (BSDP) is an Apple-developed, standards-conforming extension of DHCP. [1] It allows Macintosh computers to boot from bootable images on a network instead of local storage media such as CD, DVD, or hard disk.
System Image Utility is an application for making NetBoot and other image sets to be used with Mac OS X Server.It is available as part of the server admin tools package on a disc with the server software and as a download from Apple's website.
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iPXE is an open-source implementation of the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) client software and bootloader, created in 2010 as a fork of gPXE (gPXE was named Etherboot until 2008). [2]
NetWare [2] is a discontinued computer network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer, using the IPX network protocol.