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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1998
Colin David McCall, Glasgow, GB;
Jane Henderson Shaw, Paisley, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A client computer system (,) is adapted to connect to a server (,) across a network (,). The client system includes memory (,or a storage medium) into which an operating system is loadable. The client includes a network card (,) having a PROM (,) adapted to download a bootstrap program (,) from the server. The bootstrap program (,) is in turn adapted to load an operating system image (,) over the network from the server into a location in the memory. The client then boots from the operating system image in memory, with the client system being adapted to subsequently modify the operating system image in memory, without reloading the image over the network, and re-boot the client system.