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Download source code
Source code is now maintained in our git repository at http://git.etherboot.org/?p=gpxe.git. You can check out a copy of the source tree using
git clone git://git.etherboot.org/scm/gpxe.git
or, if you don't have git installed, you can either
- download a release of gPXE from http://kernel.org/pub/software/utils/boot/gpxe, or
- download a tarball of the current development snapshot from http://git.etherboot.org/?p=gpxe.git;a=snapshot.
A complete build of gPXE requires the syslinux
and mtools
packages in your development environment. syslinux
is required in order to create ISO images. On RedHat/Fedora systems you can install the packages by saying:
# yum install syslinux mtools
Once you have the code, you can do a complete build of gPXE using using
cd gpxe/src make
This will generate bootable images for floppy disk, CD-ROM, and USB key, which is the best way to get started experimenting with gPXE.
Updating source code
To update your downloaded source tree at any time, use
git pull
This will fetch the latest changes and apply them to your tree. This command will work only if you obtained your source tree using git clone
; if you downloaded a tarball then the only way to update your tree is to download a new tarball.
Source code for old versions
Should you want it, the source code for the old Etherboot-5.4 release is available from http://git.etherboot.org/?p=etherboot.git.
Download pre-built binaries
You can get pre-built ROM images from http://rom-o-matic.net/.