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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2003
Roy Meaney, Ballynecty, IE;
Philip Brisky, Manchaca, TX (US);
Eric Hoxworth, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph Tallieu, Austin, TX (US);
Roy Meaney, Ballynecty, IE;
Philip Brisky, Manchaca, TX (US);
Eric Hoxworth, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph Tallieu, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A universal PXE client obtains configuration information for an information handling system, applies the configuration information to create a drive on the information handling system and loads a manufacture operating system in the drive. The manufacture operating system runs a manufacture application that configures the software of the information handling system. The universal PXE client is generated by a scripting engine of a network boot program that is downloaded to the information handling system with a NIC boot kernel activated on power-up. The state of manufacture is periodically saved to a network location that tracks manufacture progress and persists manufacture state information through system re-boots.