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Adventure in pixie land - Ami Chayun

Abstract

In this lecture we will build step-by-step a PXE (network boot) loaded skeleton linux system. This will provide an example on how to build Linux (almost) from scratch and provide an x-ray of a typical initrd. Applications? Diskless linux and music player machine in the shower are just two...

Links

PXE is a boring protocol but here is the spec (Not for the faint of heart). The same info comes in a nice slide show.

What is initrd - man 4 initrd and a nice summary

Adventure_in_PXE_Land.sxi - lecture slides in openoffice format

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