Meanings
nounnetboot (uncountable)
- uncountablecomputingThe booting of a system from a network.
Several PXE-based netboot systems exist[…]
2006, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Linux Administration Handbook, page 2261 more example
Non-Intel architectures have historically included netboot capabilities that Red Hat Linux supports.
2003, Sobell, A practical guide to Red Hat Linux eight, page 392
verbnetboot (third-person singular simple present netboots, present participle netbooting, simple past and past participle netbooted)
present singular third person netboots · participle present netbooting · participle past netbooted · past netbooted
- computingTo boot a system in this manner.
Origin
From net + boot; see net (“network”).
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