Patent ID: 7664944
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. One or more computer-readable storage media having one or more computer-executable components for accessing a compressed image, where said compressed image was compressed using a compression algorithm, said components comprising a driver component for: reading the compressed image, said compressed image comprising a header, a boot environment and a software image, said boot environment and software image comprising a plurality of files combined to reduce file redundancy, wherein data of said boot environment and said software image which is common to both the software image and the boot environment is stored only once in the compressed image; identifying the boot environment in the compressed image, wherein identifying comprises searching the header for a boot specifier indicating the location of the boot environment on the computer-readable storage media; loading the compressed image as a file system wherein the data in the loaded image of said boot environment and said software image which is common to both the software image and the boot environment is loaded only once; and booting from the identified boot environment via the file system.