InetBoot: Internet BootLoader for OS Circular
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- InetBoot for x86&x86_64 LiveCD (Debian-Lenny-Beta1/Fedora/Ubuntu/KNOPPIX/VMKnoppix)" is released.
- The InetBoot boots an OS from a LiveCD ISO file on the Web. The scripts for "gPXE" are also uploaded. The detail is mentioned in English Guide PDF(InetBoot080925E.pdf) and Japanese Guide PDF(InetBoot0809251J.pdf).
- available x86 LiveCD
- 2 types of Debian Lenny Beta1 (KDE, GNOME)
- 2 types of Fedora (9,8)
- 3 types of Ubuntu (804, 710, 704)
- 1 types of KNOPPIX(531)
- 1 types of VMKnoppix (Xen: 3.2.1)
- available x86_64 LiveCD
- 2 types of Fedora x86_64 (9,8)
- 1 types of Ubuntu x86_64 (804)
- Download
- Sample ISO (6.6MB): inetboot-20080925-us.iso (MD5: 5a88fa779151c1cca69b899275719db7)
- AUTION: The sample URL may far form your site and make slow boot. Please replace the URL with the nearest one. The URL of Live CD is listed in the distributor's HP.
- Kernel for GRUB(2.7MB): linux (MD5: f17ba540614ac02eb419dc2fecfb85da)
- BuildRoot for GRUB(3.2MB): minirt.gz (MD5: f0ea38301122712361e61a961b00f539)
- InetBoot for x86&x86_64 LiveCD (Fedora/Ubuntu/KNOPPIX/VMKnoppix)"
is released.
- The InetBoot boots an OS from a LiveCD ISO file on the Web. This version
includes "x86_64 handling", "SSH client on BuildRoot" and "gPXE". gPXE downloads the kernel and initrd of InetBoot and re-boots another OS from a ISO file on the Web.
- The detail is mentioned in English Guide PDF(InetBoot080731E.pdf) and Japanese Guide PDF(InetBoot080731J.pdf).
- available x86 LiveCD
- 2 types of Fedora (9,8)
- 3 types of Ubuntu (804, 710, 704)
- 1 types of KNOPPIX(531)
- 1 types of VMKnoppix (Xen: 3.2.1)
- available x86_64 LiveCD
- 2 types of Fedora x86_64 (9,8)
- 1 types of Ubuntu x86_64 (804)
- Download
- Sample ISO (6.6MB): inetboot-20080731-us.iso (MD5: 3554dd87f713aa2a19fd7f2b7843e64c)
- CAUTION: The sample URL may far form your site and make slow boot. Please replace the URL with the nearest one. The URL of Live CD is listed in the distributor's HP.
- Kernel for GRUB(2.7MB): linux (MD5: fcfcd958c6f04877757c6b777b7b7802)
- BuildRoot for GRUB(3.2MB): minirt.gz(MD5: 94e01c2324439b7fa0c5a6601b313bba)
- InetBoot for "Fedora/Ubuntu/KNOPPIX/VMKnoppix" is released. The
Motto is "Don't download and burn a liveCD. InetBoot boots it from
the Internet."
- InetBoot is a bootloader which gets kernel and disk image via Internet and boots from it. This version boots Linux from a ISO file of LiveCD(Fedora/Ubuntu/KNOPPIX/VMKnoppix) which is uploaded on a HTTP server. The sample bootable CD (6MB) can boot:
- 2 types of Fedora (9,8)
- 3 types of Ubuntu (804, 710, 704)
- 4 types of KNOPPIX(531, 511, 501, 402) and
- 5 types of VMKnoppix (Xen: 3.2.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.0, 3.0.4.1, 3.0.4)
- The detail is mentioned in English Guide PDF(InetBoot080620E.pdf), and Japanese Guide PDF(InetBoot080620J.pdf)
- CAUTION: The sample URL in the CD image may far form your PC and make slow
boot. Please replace the URL with the nearest one. The URL of Live CD is
listed in the distributor's HP.
- Download
- Sample ISO (6.3MB): inetboot-20080620-us.iso (MD5: e37dee2e403f0626aef170d3d298a5be)
- Kernel for GRUB(2.7MB): linux (MD5: 1aa5c84793a6b0f18f3fb53aa3f03486)
- BuildRoot for GRUB(3.2MB): minirt.gz(MD5: e10e457c539a64fdd872c3f809340043)
- "InetBoot (GRUB+BuildRoot+HTTP-FUSE)" is released.
- InetBoot (GRUB+BuildRoot+HTTP-FUSE) loads a hypervisor, kernel and miniroot
from HTTP server and boots the OS(KNOPPIX/Xenoppix{GuestOS Plan9/NetBSD})
with "kexec". The root file system is obtained by HTTP-FUSE CLOOP.
- English Guide PDF, Japanese Guide PDF
- "InetBoot (GRUB+BuildRoot) for netfs" is released.
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