System and method to use unmodified operating system on diskless computer
US7191261B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 20, 2001 |
| Grant date | Mar 13, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 30, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/4416
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for using a conventional, unmodified operating system that routinely issues disk I/O requests in a diskless network computer. An adapter receives the disk I/O requests and translates them to network I/O requests, transparently to the CPU. The requests are satisfied using the network. In this way, the operating system need not be modified to issue network calls instead of disk requests.
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