How To Install ipxe-roms-qemu on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-roms-qemu on CentOS 7.
What is ipxe-roms-qemu
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 ROMs for devices emulated by QEMU, in .rom format.
We can use yum or dnf to install ipxe-roms-qemu on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipxe-roms-qemu.
Install ipxe-roms-qemu on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ipxe-roms-qemu using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ipxe-roms-qemu
Install ipxe-roms-qemu on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ipxe-roms-qemu using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ipxe-roms-qemu
How To Uninstall ipxe-roms-qemu on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ipxe-roms-qemu package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ipxe-roms-qemu
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-roms-qemu on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
