How To Install ipxe-bootimgs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-bootimgs.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. ipxe-bootimgs.noarch is Network boot loader images in bootable USB, CD, floppy and GRUB

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-bootimgs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ipxe-bootimgs.noarch`

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 to install ipxe-bootimgs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipxe-bootimgs.noarch.

Install ipxe-bootimgs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ipxe-bootimgs.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipxe-bootimgs.noarch

How To Uninstall ipxe-bootimgs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ipxe-bootimgs.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ipxe-bootimgs.noarch

ipxe-bootimgs.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/ipxe-bootimgs-20190125
/usr/share/doc/ipxe-bootimgs-20190125/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ipxe-bootimgs-20190125/COPYING.GPLv2
/usr/share/doc/ipxe-bootimgs-20190125/COPYING.UBDL
/usr/share/ipxe
/usr/share/ipxe/ipxe-i386.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

ipxe-bootimgs.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-bootimgs.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.