NetBoot is a derived work from the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP), and is similar in concept to the Preboot Execution Environment. Brad Linder - Liliputing 18:03:31 (2 weeks) The Lenovo Tab M10 Plus (3rd-gen) is an Android tablet with a 10.6 inch, 2000 x 1200 pixel LCD display and a MediaTek Helio G80 processor. Technically network booting can be implemented over any of file transfer or resource sharing protocols, for example, NFS is preferred by BSD variants. NetBoot was a technology from Apple which enabled Macs with capable firmware to boot from a network, rather than a local hard disk or optical disc drive. Their client implementations also fit into smaller ROM than PXE.
Implementations of this for Mac OS X and Windows exist as NetInstall and Windows Deployment Services, respectively.īefore IP became the primary Layer 3 protocol, Novell's NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) and IBM's Remote Initial Program Load (RIPL) were widely used for network booting. In this case, a network-booted helper operating system is used as a platform to execute the script-driven, unattended installation of the intended operating system on the target machine. Netbooting is also used for unattended operating system installations. Typically, this initial software is not a full image of the operating system to be loaded, but a small network boot manager program such as PXELINUX which can deploy a boot option menu and then load the full image by invoking the corresponding second-stage bootloader. The server from which to load the initial software is usually found by broadcasting a Bootstrap Protocol or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request. The initial software to be run is loaded from a server on the network for IP networks this is usually done using the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP).
Old personal computers without network boot firmware support can utilize a floppy disk or flash drive containing software to boot from the network. Post-1998 PowerPC ( G3 – G5) Mac systems can also boot from their New World ROM firmware to a network disk via NetBoot. Contemporary desktop personal computers generally provide an option to boot from the network in their BIOS/ UEFI via the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE).