System and method for configuring computer for operation
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsHowell Chambers, Kevin Henegar, David Karner, Andrew Mueller
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Abstract
A method for deploying software in a computer system includes providing a deployment maintenance mechanism (DMM) which includes drivers for hardware. A deployment mechanism which includes an image with drivers for hardware and which identifies hardware associated with the computer, along with a native operating system, are also provided. For hardware detected by the deployment mechanism and not having an associated driver in the image, a driver from the DMM is copied into the deployment mechanism using the native operating system. The native operating system is then re-booted to deploy drivers for hardware associated with the computer.
Claims20
A method for deploying software in a computer system comprising:
- providing, in a service partition of a hard disk drive (HDD) associated with the computer, at least a deployment maintenance mechanism (DMM) including drivers for hardware, a deployment mechanism and a native operating system also being provided, the deployment mechanism identifying hardware associated with the computer, the deployment mechanism being associated with an image containing drivers for hardware;
- for hardware detected by the deployment mechanism and not having an associated driver in the image, copying into the deployment mechanism a driver from the service partition using the native operating system;
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- re-booting the native operating system at least to deploy drivers for hardware associated with the computer.
A computer system, comprising:
- at least one central processing unit (CPU);
- at least one storage accessible to the CPU, the storage being provided with a partition holding a native operating system, a software deployment mechanism including at least one computer system image, and a deployment management mechanism including at least plural drivers for hardware;
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- logic executable by the CPU to undertake acts comprising:
- using the native operating system, adding at least one hardware driver to the software deployment mechanism having an image not containing the driver.
A service for deploying software including a native operating system in a computer, the service comprising:
- providing the operating system in a service partition of the computer;
- providing a deployment management mechanism (DMM) in the service partition, the DMM having at least some drivers for hardware;
- and
- providing a deployment mechanism in the service partition for use of an image associated therewith in deploying software in the computer, the deployment mechanism including means for identifying hardware associated with the computer and, means for, for any hardware requiring a driver not associated with the image, obtaining the driver from the DMM using the native operating system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.