Patent ID: 8161101

Claim:
A system comprising: a plurality of client computing systems, each client computing system having one or more drivers needed for devices that are not automatically found and installed thereon during vendor-specified operating system installation; and, a server computing system having stored thereon a master driver file within which entries for drivers for the devices of each client computing system are created without user interaction, the server computing system to copy the master driver file to each client computing system, wherein each client computing system has an unattended installation file within which the server computing system creates without user interaction references to the entries for the drivers of the devices for the client computing system within the master driver file that are not already present within the master driver file as stored on the server computing system, as copied to the client computing system, and wherein the server computing system is to copy the drivers that are needed for the devices on each client computing system to the client computing system, and is to remotely install operating systems on the client computing systems in an unattended manner, where the drivers of the devices for the client computing systems are able to be installed in the unattended manner due to the references created within the unattended installation files to the entries for the drivers of the devices within the master drive file, wherein the unattended installation file is a different file than the master driver file is.