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{{Infobox software

| operating system = [[Linux]]

| name = DRBL

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| logo = drbl.svg

| screenshot = Drblmenu.png

| screenshot size = 200px

| caption = Graphical boot menu of DRBL.

| developer = NCHC Free Software Labs

| released = {{initial release|2004|4|1}}

| latest_release_version = 2.2.11<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/drbl/files/drbl_stable/|title = Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) - Browse /Drbl_stable at SourceForge.net}}</ref>

| latest_release_date = {{release date|2016|5|31}}

| operating system = [[Linux]]

| genre = Disk cloning, Disaster recovery, Network boot, PXE boot

| license = [[GNU General Public License]]

| website = [http://drbl.sourceforge.net/ drbl.sourceforge.net]

}}

'''DRBL''' (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux) is a [[Network File System (protocol)|NFS]]-/[[Network Information Service|NIS]] server providing a [[diskless client|diskless]] or systemless environment for client machines.

It could be used for

* cloning machines with [[Clonezilla]] software inbuilt,

* providing for a network installation of Linux distributions like Fedora, Debian, etc.,

* providing machines via PXE boot (or similar means) with a small size operation system (e.g., DSL, Puppy Linux, FreeDOS).

Providing a DRBL-Server

* Installation on a machine running a supported Linux distribution via installation script,

* [[Live CD]].

Installation is possible on a machine with [[Debian]], [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]], [[Mandriva]], [[Red Hat Linux]], [[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora]], [[CentOS]] or [[SUSE S.A.|SuSE]] already installed. like [[Linux Terminal Server Project|LTSP]], it uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware, thus making it feasible to use server machines with less power. DRBL also includes [[Clonezilla]], a partitioning and disk cloning utility similar to Symantec Ghost.

DRBL comes under the terms of the [[GNU GPL]] license so providing the user with the ability to customize it.

==Features==