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Method of manufacturing operating system master template, method of manufacturing a computer entity and product resulting therefrom, and method of producing a production version of an operating system

US7000231B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 22, 2000
Grant dateFeb 14, 2006
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Expiry dateNov 2, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F8/63
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A manufacturing system is disclosed for creating a master disk for producing clone copies installed on a plurality of production headless computer entities, said manufacturing system comprising: a build operating system, a set of primary operating system files, a set of emergency operating system files, a set of set-up files, a user interface and a data disk, wherein the manufacturing system creates a master system disk template from the data disk. The master system disk has not less than 3 operating systems, and the master manufacturing system is configured to initialize the master system disk.

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