| Greg Hartman | 76d05dc | 2016-11-23 15:51:27 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | |
| 2 | // == DERIVATIVES == |
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| 4 | The *Syslinux* suite contains several boot loader (core) derivatives (variants), currently based solely on the boot media: |
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| 6 | *SYSLINUX* - Disk (floppy/hard disk) based |
| 7 | *PXELINUX* - PXE network booting |
| 8 | *ISOLINUX* - ISO9660 (CD/DVD; El Torito) based |
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| 10 | Prior to v4.00, *SYSLINUX* was only for FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 and another derivative, *EXTLINUX*, was for ext2/ext3 file systems, whose functionality has been merged into *SYSLINUX*. |
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