Method for automatically configuring and formatting a computer s

Details Method for automatically configuring and formatting a computer s Method for automatically configuring and formatting a computer s

1997-10-01

2000-11-28

Palys, Joseph E.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

710 10, G06F 9445

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061548359

ABSTRACT:
A method of automatically configuring and formatting a computer system for installation of a prespecified application program in the computer system, which includes the performing the following acts: automatically creating a primary active DOS partition on a primary hard disk drive of the computer system; automatically selecting a size value for a primary extended DOS partition; automatically creating the primary extended DOS partition on the primary hard disk drive, wherein the size of the primary extended DOS partition equals the selected size value; automatically formatting each partition so as to create a root directory and a file allocation table for each partition; and automatically executing a DOS batch file in order to install said prespecified application program.

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