Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070162625
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Knoppix (Knopper’s *nix) is an attempt to not only create a fully featured rescue/demo system on a single CD, but also to unburden the user from the task of hardware identification and configuration of drivers, devices and X11 for his or her specific hardware. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-... |
| Author/Creator | Klaus Knopper |
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| Publication Date | January 1, 2000 |
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Excerpt
Excerpt The underlying GNU/Linux base system is modified to
boot non-interactively into runlevel 5 with a working
X-Window and KDE[6] configuration, with all autodetectable
devices configured, ready to (auto-)start applications
In stage 3 of the boot process, init calls a finalizing
setup script named sysinit. In this script, the
automatic (or, if ”expert” mode was selected, manual)
hardware setup is done. hwsetup - a selfmade
tool that uses the kudzu-library [4] - detects devices,
loads all necessary driver modules for known hardware,
sets up symbolic links in /dev and writes configuration
parameters and options to the corresponding files
in /etc/sysconfig/ on the ramdisk. |
Relevance
Claims
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A method of delivering a device driver to an operating system executing on a computer platform, the method comprising:
during booting of the operating system, identifying a first device for which a device driver is needed;
requesting the device driver from a service processor installed on the computer platform, wherein the service processor comprises a storage configured to store one or more device drivers; and
delivering the device driver to the operating system without intervention by a user.
Relevance
Reference shows automatically detecting devices during booting of Linux from the live CD, retrieving device drivers from the CD, and loading them without user intervention.
Reference shows automatically detecting devices during booting of Linux from the live CD, retrieving device drivers from the CD, and loading them without user intervention.
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The method of Claim 1, wherein said delivering comprises:
loading the device driver.
Relevance
Reference shows automatically detecting devices during booting of Linux from the live CD, retrieving device drivers from the CD, and loading them.
Reference shows automatically detecting devices during booting of Linux from the live CD, retrieving device drivers from the CD, and loading them.
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A computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method of delivering a device driver to an operating system executing on a computer platform, without user intervention, the method comprising:
during booting of the operating system, identifying a first device for which a device driver is needed;
requesting the device driver from a service processor installed on the computer platform, wherein the service processor comprises a storage configured to store one or more device drivers; and
delivering the device driver to the operating system without intervention by a user.
Relevance
Reference shows automatically detecting devices during booting of Linux from the live CD, retrieving device drivers from the CD, and loading them without user intervention.
Reference shows automatically detecting devices during booting of Linux from the live CD, retrieving device drivers from the CD, and loading them without user intervention.
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