booting
RSS bootingIFCA Promotes Collaborative Grid Research with IBM Computing Solution
White Paper The installation process was automated, incorporating a Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) and Kickstart procedure, a Linux-based industry standard for booting over a network. Funded by the University of Cantabria and a member of the CSIC (Spanish... [03 Jul 2008]
Asus dives into instant Linux
News Splashtop is described by DeviceVM as a "secure web-surfing environment", and is embedded on motherboards so that it can be booted within seconds, as an alternative to booting up a full operating system. [19 May 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Deploying Operating Systems With Configuration Manager 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Level 300)
White Paper First, the presenter integrates Windows Deployment Services (WDS) with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to utilize PXE booting. The presenter of this employs additional tools that make Microsoft System Center operating system... [01 May 2008]
HP-UX Boot Over SAN
White Paper This white paper is intended to help to determine whether booting your HP-UX server from a Storage Area Network (SAN) connected device is appropriate for your particular computing environment. In addition, it offers recommendations for implementing... [10 Apr 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Deploying Operating Systems With System Center Configuration Manager (Part 2 of 2) (Level 300)
White Paper First, it integrates Windows Deployment Services (WDS) with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager to use Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) booting. This webcast employs additional tools that make Microsoft System Center operating system... [07 Jan 2008]
Details of Vista SP1 revealed
News Microsoft also claimed SP1 would reduce the time Vista takes to read large images by 50 per cent and address a problem which can cause a five-minute delay when booting ReadyDrive hard drives. Microsoft has revealed details of the changes to its... [12 Dec 2007]
DECnet to TCP/IP Migration for OpenVMS Users
White Paper OpenVMS recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, and, since first booting on VAX hardware, OpenVMS, with its DECnet networking protocol, has created a loyal user base. Customers are pleased by its reliability, robustness, security, and performance... [05 Dec 2007]
Linux in a Nutshell: Boot Methods
White Paper This paper describes some techniques for booting the Linux system. Choosing between operating systems is generally referred to as dual booting, although the user can actually boot more than two. Depending on the hardware and whether the user wants... [24 Oct 2007]
Dual-Booting Tips for Windows XP Embedded
White Paper Known as dual-booting, this allows the developer to build the Windows XP Embedded operating system in Windows XP Professional, download the operating system to a separate partition or hard drive, and then reboot the machine into Windows XP Embedded. [14 Aug 2007]
Investigating the Solaris OPENBOOT
White Paper The Solaris operating system gets the jumpstart for its booting from a hardware-level interface called the OpenBoot PROM or OBP for short. OpenBoot at its heart has an interactive command interpreter with a varied set of functions. [05 Aug 2007]
Running Linux on a Xilinx XUP Board
White Paper A tutorial for booting a fully functional operating system based on the Linux 2.4 kernel on a Xilinx University Program Virtex II-Pro based development board is presented. Furthermore, this paper describes a reconfigurable hardware accelerator that... [18 May 2007]
Release Notes for Cisco Network Boot Replication Utility for Linux Release 3.2.2
White Paper Cisco Network Boot is a product that allows booting a computer without an attached disk drive. With Cisco Network Boot, a computer without a directly attached disk drive uses iSCSI protocol via an iSCSI driver to boot from an iSCSI disk through an... [18 May 2007]
IBM BladeCenter Booting JS21 From Fibre Network Attached Storage
White Paper This paper demonstrates to the Storage Administrator audience how to prepare, configure, and boot the IBM BladeCenter using IBM Fibre Channel based storage solutions. The initial view of this paper describes how to configure the Blade Center Fibre... [26 Apr 2007]
SAN Booting With Windows Server Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000 and 2003 Operating Systems
White Paper This paper will enumerate and explore the issues surrounding the booting of Windows Server 2000 and 2003 operating systems from a Network Appliance FCP- or iSCSI-enabled storage system. This paper will cover the issues germane to SAN booting... [01 Apr 2007]
Techniques to Build a Diskless Boot Linux Cluster of JS21 Blades
White Paper Using Linux as the operating system of choice and booting "Diskless" provides for even lower cost of ownership, faster build times, and easier maintenance cycles. Blades are becoming an increasingly popular method for companies to use to build up... [21 Feb 2007]
