Network Installations

Our goal is to make installing an operating system over the network as straight-forward as possible. Most people obtain a unique hostname and IP address from the Network Systems Group; some use a DHCP service set up on their subnet. Network installations are limited to on-campus

Systems Support offers BU versions of two operating systems.

To install BU Linux over the network, download a boot image to burn to CD. Once your machine boots from this CD, it connects to the host that has the rest of the operating system and optional products.

Solaris 10 out of the box is insecure. Contact us if you need access to the BU Solaris download center. We can help secure your system, connect it to AFS, use containers or logical domains, or take advantage of ZFS.