How To Install ipxe on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ipxe
ipxe is:
iPXE is network boot firmware. It supports a variety of network cards, including some wireless cards, and variety of network protocols (traditional DHCP, BOOTP and TFTP and also HTTP, iSCSI, SAN via FCoE and Infiniband). It supports scripting.
It is possible to use iPXE as a PXE ROM in the network card or to chainload it from other boot methods.
This package provides boot code for all supported network cards in one binary and several bootable formats.
Package: ipxe Architecture: all Version: 1.0.0+git-20190109.133f4c4-0ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Bastian Blank [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2607 Depends: ipxe-qemu, grub-ipxe Filename: pool/main/i/ipxe/ipxe_1.0.0+git-20190109.133f4c4-0ubuntu3_all.deb Size: 1294632 MD5sum: 970f5179da6982ef0766bfdd3ef53d8a SHA1: e6e5c9533b50aa2b773c229fdd11b8df4909b2ad SHA256: 7d0c2576ebe77d56ff9f91399ecbb75cf8c091e5217c50df86920b1f04f1a101 Homepage: http://ipxe.org/ Description-en: PXE boot firmware iPXE is network boot firmware. It supports a variety of network cards, including some wireless cards, and variety of network protocols (traditional DHCP, BOOTP and TFTP and also HTTP, iSCSI, SAN via FCoE and Infiniband). It supports scripting.
It is possible to use iPXE as a PXE ROM in the network card or to chainload it from other boot methods.
This package provides boot code for all supported network cards in one binary and several bootable formats.
There are three methods to install ipxe on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ipxe Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ipxe using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ipxe
Install ipxe Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ipxe using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ipxe
Install ipxe Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ipxe using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ipxe
How To Uninstall ipxe on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ipxe package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ipxe
Uninstall ipxe And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ipxe and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ipxe
Remove ipxe Configurations and Data
To remove ipxe configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ipxe
Remove ipxe configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ipxe configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ipxe
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
