SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF NETWORK BOOTING OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM TO A CLIENT COMPUTER USING HIBERNATION

摘要

A system for and method of network booting of an operating system (O/S) on one or more client devices (2), such as personal computers (PC's), employing a hibernation image. Remote booting of sets of client devices is facilitated by employing virtual disk emulation and, in certain preferred embodiment, broadcasting or multicasting of data residing on a network server (4) which is necessary to appropriately boot and configure the one or more client devices, the data including hibernation (20), O/S (28) and application files.