| 摘要 |
A system and method for booting a client workstation from a remote data processing system over a network includes initializing the client workstation sufficiently to establish network communications with a remote disk on the remote data processing system, establishing a network communications link between the local and remote systems, issuing a request from the client workstation to the remote data processing system over the network communications link for a task image code module for providing a network interface between the client workstation and the remote disk on the remote data processing system, downloading the task image code module from the remote to the client workstation in response to the request for the task image code module, invoking the task image code module by the client workstation to establish a network interface between the client workstation and the remote disk, copying an image of the remote disk over the network to the client workstation to create a local disk image stored in the client workstation, disconnecting the client workstation from the network, booting the client workstation from the disk image stored in the client workstation, including loading an operating system module from the disk image into the client workstation, invoking the operating system module to control the client workstation, loading network environment modules from the disk image into the client workstation under control of the operating system module, and invoking the network environment modules to establish a network communication link between the client workstation and the remote data processing system.
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