Method and apparatus for operating system deployment

Details Method and apparatus for operating system deployment Method and apparatus for operating system deployment

2006-03-07

2009-06-09

Lee, Thomas (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

Loading initialization program

C713S001000, C713S100000, C709S222000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07546450

ABSTRACT:
In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for deploying an operating system on a client. The method includes downloading a boot configuration file, downloading a boot kernel and boot loader specified in the boot configuration file, booting the boot kernel on the client, executing the boot loader, by the kernel, to download of a ramdisk image, and mounting the ramdisk image in memory on the client, where the ramdisk image comprises the operating system.

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