Category Archives: Software

Everything related to the non-physical digital world.

Android apps to try

Here are some Android apps and games I’ve found interesting or which were recommended somewhere for various purposes. And which I didn’t had the time/need to try them yet. Apps Games Specials / Miscellaneous

Outlook 2016 with Exchange 2007

In Outlook 2016, you can’t setup an account from an Exchange 2007 server without having autodiscover setup correctly. The Manual Setup only offers “Exchange ActiveSync” which doesn’t work with the 2007 Exchange. (The working method is named “Microsoft Exchange”.) Usually, for an email address account@example.org, Outlook 2016 will look for https://autodiscover.example.org/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml. If that DNS entry… Read More »

Multi USB Boot

Similar to booting different operating systems via network, you can also boot multiple systems from a USB flash drive. This is even a bit easier since you have a boot medium (the flash drive) and don’t have to jump through hoops to get a system to boot from the network. Initial Setup While you can… Read More »

iPXE Scripts for Tools

Most tools you want to boot are probably Linux systems. To boot them, you need a kernel and some (initial) filesystem. One way is to load an initrd (initial ramdisk) which contains only the basic stuff and mounts the big filesystem itself. Or you can mount the “big” filesystem directly and use that from the… Read More »

iPXE Network Boot

I first stumbled upon iPXE because of a failing info monitor at my local train station: iPXE is an open source firmware, meant as a replacement for the very basic option ROM in ethernet cards. But you can also use that default option ROM to chainload iPXE without having to modify your device(s). iPXE brings… Read More »

My iPXE settings

I’ll list my modifications (keep everything else as it is) here but keep in mind that you most probably wantdifferent settings. See also this post about iPXE in general. src/config/console.h (commented in to enable:) (changed from us to de🙂 src/config/general.h (changed from #undef to #define🙂 (changed from #undef to #define🙂 (changed from #undef to #define🙂… Read More »