Patent ID: 7448034

Claim:
A method for creating a replica computer system program image, the method comprising the steps of: a build computer system capturing a replica image of a program; the build computer system removing components, including driver software, from the replica image of the program, thereby creating an image of the program that lacks driver software; the build computer system downloading the created image of the program to a target computer system, in order to begin a build of the program on the target computer system; the build computer system receiving from the target computer system, target computer system configuration information; the build computer system determining, according to the received target computer system configuration information and according to predetermined rules stored in the build computer system, a set of program components including one or more driver software needed by the target computer system to complete the build of the program on the target computer system; the build computer system transmitting one or more program components of the determined set of programmed program components to the target computer system; and the build computer system completing the build of the program on the target computer system, such that the program includes the one or more driver software from the set of transmitted program components.