How To Install ipxe-bootimgs on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-bootimgs
on Fedora 36.
What is ipxe-bootimgs
iPXE is an open source network bootloader. It provides a direct replacement for proprietary PXE ROMs, with many extra features such as DNS, HTTP, iSCSI, etc. This package contains the iPXE boot images in USB, CD, floppy, and PXE UNDI formats.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ipxe-bootimgs
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipxe-bootimgs.
Install ipxe-bootimgs on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ipxe-bootimgs
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ipxe-bootimgs
Install ipxe-bootimgs on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ipxe-bootimgs
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ipxe-bootimgs
How To Uninstall ipxe-bootimgs on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the ipxe-bootimgs
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ipxe-bootimgs
ipxe-bootimgs Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/doc/ipxe-bootimgs
/usr/share/doc/ipxe-bootimgs/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ipxe-bootimgs/COPYING.GPLv2
/usr/share/doc/ipxe-bootimgs/COPYING.UBDL
/usr/share/ipxe
/usr/share/ipxe/ipxe-i386.efi
/usr/share/ipxe/ipxe-snponly-x86_64.efi
/usr/share/ipxe/ipxe-x86_64.efi
/usr/share/ipxe/ipxe.dsk
/usr/share/ipxe/ipxe.iso
/usr/share/ipxe/ipxe.lkrn
/usr/share/ipxe/ipxe.usb
/usr/share/ipxe/undionly.kpxe
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-bootimgs
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).