[syslinux] SYSLINUX 1.73 released
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sun May 26 18:51:27 PDT 2002
This version is basically the same as 1.73-pre10.
Changes in 1.73:
* Work on removing gratuitous differences between modules.
* Break up the source in common and module-specific files.
* PXELINUX: Allow chaining of other PXE NBPs.
* ISOLINUX: Allow loading "CD-ROM boot sectors".
* ALL: generalize the definition of a boot sector/NBP.
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Title: syslinux
Version: 1.73
Entered-date: 2002-05-26
Description: SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system
which operates off MS-DOS floppies. It is intended to
simplify first-time installation of Linux, rescue
disks, and other uses for boot floppies. A SYSLINUX floppy
can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other
OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once
it has been created; and requires only a ~ 8K DOS program
or ~ 16K Linux program to create in the first place.
Starting with version 1.46 it also includes PXELINUX, a
program to boot off a network server using a boot PROM
compatible with the Intel PXE (Pre-Execution
Environment) specification.
Starting with version 1.60 it also includes ISOLINUX,
a program to boot off an ISO 9660 in native
"no-emulation" mode.
Starting with version 1.65, it additionally includes
MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems from
nontraditional media like PXE or CD-ROM.
Keywords: syslinux pxelinux msdos boot loader floppy install
network pxe iso9660 cdfs memdisk
Author: hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by: hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site: ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
315257 syslinux-1.73.tar.gz
368791 syslinux-1.73.zip
Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.97 or
later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
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