公开(公告)号：US07401332B2

公开(公告)日：2008-07-15

申请号：US10339762

申请日：2003-01-09

申请人： Robert Kimberlin Foster ,  Mark Wayne Grosch ,  Minh Nguyen ,  Christine Iju Wang

发明人： Robert Kimberlin Foster ,  Mark Wayne Grosch ,  Minh Nguyen ,  Christine Iju Wang

IPC分类号： G06F9/445 ,  G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G06F9/4413 ,  G06F8/60 ,  G06F9/4401

摘要： A system and method are provided to allow a user to update a computer system without having to interact with an initialization, or configurator software utility, or program. More particularly, the present invention allows a system provider, manufacturer, or service provider to create an installation file that, when provided to a user, will configure a system to accommodate newly added/removed hardware automatically. A base model and a new model of the system are maintained. The new model will include one or more different configurations, such as new graphics adapters, communications adapters, I/O controllers, or the like. The provider will have created a recovery/install image to be used with the base model. An operating system including a configurator program will be running on both the base model system and new model system. Software, such as device drivers, to be used with the new model's changed hardware configuration is installed on the new model system and initialized using its configurator program. A file for the new model is created using vital product data for the base model system. This new model configuration file is then installed on the base model machine and its configurator program is run. The configuration information (including the new model configuration data) is then stored as a system image and a script file is added to this system image. This new model image is then made available to end users, by a CD or the like, having a new model system. The script file in the new model image will specify a start priority that will allow it to be called before the configurator program and it will proceed to initialize the system with the appropriate software captured from the system provider's new model machine.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种系统和方法，以允许用户更新计算机系统，而不必与初始化或配置软件实用程序或程序交互。 更具体地，本发明允许系统提供商，制造商或服务提供商创建一个安装文件，当提供给用户时，该文件将配置系统以自动适应新增/移除的硬件。 维护系统的基本型号和新型号。 新型号将包括一个或多个不同的配置，例如新的图形适配器，通信适配器，I / O控制器等。 提供者将创建一个与基本模型一起使用的恢复/安装映像。 包括配置程序的操作系统将在基本型号系统和新型号系统上运行。 与新型号更改的硬件配置一起使用的软件（如设备驱动程序）安装在新型号系统上，并使用其配置程序进行初始化。 使用基本模型系统的重要产品数据创建新模型的文件。 然后将这个新的型号配置文件安装在基本型机器上，并运行其配置程序。 然后将配置信息（包括新的模型配置数据）存储为系统映像，并将脚本文件添加到该系统映像。 然后，通过具有新的模型系统的CD等向最终用户提供这种新的模型图像。 新型号图像中的脚本文件将指定一个起始优先级，允许在配置程序之前调用该优先级，并且将使用从系统提供商的新型号机器捕获的相应软件继续初始化系统。