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Network booting

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.

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Hardware support

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Legacy

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Network booting

Nodes51
Edges50
Triples15
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.039216
Components1

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Network booting

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related to Legacy · 13
Network booting → Before IP, BSD, IBM's Remote Initial Program, Layer, Load, NCP, NFS, Novell's NetWare Core Protocol, PXE, RIPL, ROM, Technically, Their

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network used booting boot also disk drive netboot software initial protocol computers local server process pxe load operating system support

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PXELINUX which can deploy a boot option menuinstance ofbut a small network boot manager program0.80text
then load the full image by invoking the corresponding second-stage bootloaderinstance ofbut a small network boot manager program0.80text
Network bootingrelated to LegacyBefore IP0.60section
Network bootingrelated to LegacyLayer0.60section
Network bootingrelated to LegacyNovell's NetWare Core Protocol0.60section
Network bootingrelated to LegacyNCP0.60section
Network bootingrelated to LegacyIBM's Remote Initial Program0.60section
Network bootingrelated to LegacyLoad0.60section
Network bootingrelated to LegacyRIPL0.60section
Network bootingrelated to LegacyTheir0.60section
Network bootingrelated to LegacyROM0.60section
Network bootingrelated to LegacyPXE0.60section

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