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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions blog/2015-11-25-introducing-netboot-xyz.md
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slug: 2015/11/25/introducing-netboot-xyz
authors:
- antonym
title: Introducing netboot.xyz
author: Antony Messerli
author_url: https://github.com/antonym
author_image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/245007?v=4
tags: [netboot.xyz]
---

My newest project on the side is [netboot.xyz](https://netboot.xyz). If you've seen [boot.rackspace.com](http://boot.rackspace.com), this should look pretty familiar to you. I ran across cheap .xyz domains from [Namecheap](https://www.namecheap.com) (one dollar at the time!), and figured the netboot.xyz name space was much easier to remember and was more neutral to the goal I was trying to accomplish. I forked boot.rackspace.com (still doing basic maintenance) and am now focusing my efforts on netboot.xyz.

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My goal with the project is to make it easy as possible to boot many of the popular operating systems from bare metal, virtual machines, etc without the hassle of hunting down the latest ISO for the OS you want to download. Ideally it's usable with any service provider or just someone who maintains their own servers.

I usually try and use operating systems that make their boot loaders available via mirrors, although there are occasionally some exceptions. I'm also experimenting with various new builds like WinPE, Live Booted OS, and I'd like to even pursue getting some hypervisors on there as well to make it as easy as possible to install everything.
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slug: 2016/01/07/booting-linux-isos-with-memdisk-and-ipxe
title: Booting Linux ISOs with Memdisk and iPXE
author: Antony Messerli
author_url: https://github.com/antonym
author_image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/245007?v=4
authors:
- antonym
tags: [iso, memdisk, netboot.xyz, ipxe]
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In those cases, occasionally you can use memdisk and iPXE to boot those ISOs but they don't always work. In doing some research, I ran across one of the major issues as to why.

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### Syslinux - Memdisk

_The following was taken from [syslinux - memdisk](http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK)._
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slug: 2019/11/29/self-hosting-and-live-booting
title: Self Hosting and Live Booting
author: Antony Messerli
author_url: https://github.com/antonym
author_image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/245007?v=4
authors:
- antonym
tags: [self_hosting, netboot.xyz]
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We have been hard at work the last few weeks and I wanted to provide some updates as to what we're currently working on and where we want to go.

I would like to thank all of the contributors over the last few years that have contributed code, tested, and provided feedback for the project. The contributions have all been really helpful and have helped keep the project up to date.

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### Self Hosting

I have been working on getting the netboot.xyz source tree to a point where they can be generated via Ansible so that anyone can take the repository and customize it to their liking a lot easier than it was in the past. I have gotten most of that working and will be swapping out the existing source bits in the netboot.xyz repo with the bits to deploy with Ansible. My goal is to generate the primary netboot.xyz site using Ansible instead of just uploading the source files. There will still be a lot of future optimizations that can be done to the templates but this is a good first step toward consolidating a lot of the duplicate code.
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slug: 2021/09/04/doc-site-updates
title: Site Updates
author: Antony Messerli
author_url: https://github.com/antonym
author_image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/245007?v=4
authors:
- antonym
tags: [site-updates, netboot.xyz]
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It has been a while since an update, but the main netboot.xyz site has a new look to it. I switched from using [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) to using [Docusaurus](https://docusaurus.io/). I also moved the blog from [Ghost](https://ghost.org/) to simplify things. I started down this path a while back and recently got around to polishing it all up and pushing it out. I plan on building out more content and docs over time to make it a great resource for everything netboot related. At some point, I still would like to get some updated pictures, logos, etc as well but those are a much lower priority.

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I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the netboot.xyz community to this day. I originally started the project to create a quick way to install and test operating systems on VMs without having to download media and mount it everytime I needed to boot a new OS. It is great to see that it is helping out others on a day to day basis. We recently crossed 150,000 main menu loads over the past 30 days so it is great to see it being used worldwide.

If you enjoy using netboot.xyz, please give us a star on [GitHub](https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz) and follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/netbootxyz). Please also consider supporting the project by donating to the [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/netbootxyz) or [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/netbootxyz). It helps us pay for infrastructure hosting and other costs like testing hardware, new architectures, and maintaining the project.

We also have over 400 users in our [Discord](https://discord.gg/An6PA2a) and have a [Github Discussion Board](https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz/discussions) where you can ask questions and discuss netboot.xyz.

More to come!
More to come!
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antonym:
name: Antony Messerli
title: Lead Developer
url: https://www.reversengineered.com
image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/245007?v=4
page: false
socials:
x: ntonym
github: antonym

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