JP2000056952A - Installation device and its method for operating system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the installation system of an operating system, which automates/installs the incorporation of a driver and HAL, which do not exist in operating system CD-ROM, namely, in which an installation function in CD- ROM can automatically recognize and incorporate the driver and HAL, which are stored in a floppy disk. SOLUTION: This device has an installation function part 1 which automatically starts operating when a device into which operating system CD-ROM is inserted is started and executes a conventional function and a processing for automatically incorporating a driver and HAL in a floppy disk, a data processing part 2 containing a driver retrieval part 21 in the floppy disk and an incorporated information retrieval part 22 and a data part 3 containing a drive attribute data part 31 and a driver incorporated data part 32.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an operating system known as the operating system Workstation or the operating system Server (for example, the product name WindowsN of Microsoft Corporation).
T) an installation system and method.
More specifically, various drivers and HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) stored on a floppy disk or a magnetic tape can be installed by the installation function in the storage medium.
r) That is, the hierarchy in which processing for abstracting various hardware is stored is automatically recognized, and the driver or HAL
And a method of installing the same.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional operating system installation method, an operating system is installed on a hard disk from a medium on which the operating system is recorded (for example, a CD-ROM on which Windows NT is recorded). In this conventional installation method, as shown in FIG. 6, a CD-ROM is inserted immediately after turning on the power of an apparatus for installing an operating system (step A1 in FIG. 6). CD-RO
When installing drivers or HALs that do not exist in M, CD-R
After inserting the OM, the installer inputs a key at a specific timing during the installation to read various drivers and HALs stored on the floppy disk and an information file for incorporating them (step A in FIG. 6).
2 and step A3). If no key is entered during installation, the driver and HAL in the CD-ROM will be installed. Thereafter, the installer sets the operating system environment according to the displayed message (step A4 in FIG. 6).

[0003]

However, the conventional installation method has the following problems. First
The problem is that there are many installation mistakes by the user, and even if the installation procedure is described in the manual, the driver or HAL is not often installed. Second
The problem with this is that when installing a driver that is not on the operating system CD-ROM, it is necessary to create an information file to be embedded in each of the drivers and HALs.

[0004]

[Means for Solving the Problems] When a device for installing an operating system by inserting a CD-ROM in which an operating system is recorded is started, a driver or a driver is installed.
Check whether there is a storage means such as a floppy disk or magnetic tape storing the HAL, and if the storage means is present, install the operating system on the operating system installation device that incorporates the driver or HAL into the above device. The driver attribute data section that stores the data that associates the function and the HAL with the file in the storage device, and the storage location and registry information required to incorporate the driver and HAL. A data section including a driver built-in data section in which data to be stored is stored; and a driver search for searching for a driver or HAL type stored in the driver attribute data section based on a file name in the storage means. Based on the type of driver or HAL found by the above driver search A data processing unit including the embedded information retrieval for retrieving information for incorporating drivers and HAL you are, are characterized in that they are composed of. In addition, the present invention provides a driver or a driver not stored in the CD-ROM,
The feature is to incorporate HAL. Further, the present invention provides an installation function for installing an operating system stored on a CD-ROM, installing a driver or a HAL in a storage means such as a floppy disk, and a drive for defining a device or a HAL type from a file name. A driver data section having an attribute data section, a driver built-in data section storing data relating to the storage location of the drive and the HAL and registry information, and a driver attribute data section based on the file name in the floppy disk. A data processing unit having a driver search in a floppy disk for searching the type of HAL and a built-in information search for searching information for incorporating the driver or HAL based on the type of the driver or HAL thus searched. Operating system installation system In the system installation method, the process of inserting the CD-ROM at the time of booting the device on which the operating system is to be installed, the process of checking for the presence of a floppy disk containing the drive and HAL, and, if there is such a floppy disk, And installing the drive and HAL, and setting the operating system environment and installing the operating system.

[0005]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of an operating system installation system according to the present invention. This system includes an installation function unit 1, a data processing unit 2, and a data unit 3 which automatically start operating when a device in which a CD-ROM which is a medium in which an operating system is recorded is inserted is started.

[0006] The data section 3 includes a driver attribute data section 31.
And a driver embedded data section 32. The driver attribute data section 31 stores data relating the file in the floppy disk to which driver of the device supported by the operating system and which HAL. The driver installation data section 32 stores data for associating a driver, a HAL, a storage location necessary for installing the driver and the HAL, and registry information.

The data processing section 2 includes a driver search function section 21 in a floppy disk and an embedded information search section 22. Driver search function unit 21 in floppy disk
The driver and the file stored in the driver attribute data section 31 are used as keys for the file names in the floppy disk.
Search for HAL type. The embedded information search function unit 22 uses the type of the driver and HAL searched by the driver search function unit 21 in the floppy disk as a key, and
Search for information to incorporate L.

The installation function section 1 is a function for installing an operating system, and is a function obtained by adding the following processing to the conventional functions. That is, when a floppy disk is inserted during the installation, the file name in the floppy disk is checked, the file name is sent to the driver search function unit 21 in the floppy disk, and the embedded information search function unit 22 The driver and HAL are incorporated in the received information.

Next, the overall operation of the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1, FIG. 2, and FIG. Fig. 2 shows the driver and HAL stored on a floppy disk on CD-RO.
9 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of automatically recognizing and incorporating an installation function in M. First, start the device on which you want to install the operating system, and then
When the OM is inserted (step A1 in FIG. 2), the installation function starts automatically. The installation function displays a confirmation message as to whether or not there is a floppy disk storing the driver and HAL (step A2), asks the installer to confirm this display (step A3), and if there is a floppy disk, inserts the floppy disk. The installation operator is prompted to insert it (step A4). Next, the driver and the HAL in the floppy disk are incorporated into the device for installing the operating system (step A5). After that, the installer
Set the operating system environment and install the operating system (step A
6). If there is no floppy disk in step A3, steps A4 and A5 are skipped, the operating system environment is immediately set, and the operating system is installed (step A3).
6).

Next, the operation of incorporating the driver and the HAL in step A5 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, the installation function unit 1 causes the driver search function unit 21 in the floppy disk to start searching. Driver search function part 2 in floppy disk
In step 1, the file name in the floppy disk is searched from the data registered in the driver attribute data section 31 using a part of the file name as a key (step A51 in FIG. 3). . Next, it is confirmed whether a driver or a HAL has been searched in step A51 (step A52). If no driver or HAL is found in step A51, the floppy disk displays an error message indicating that no driver or HAL is stored (step A55). In step A51,
When a driver or HAL is searched, the embedded information search function unit 22 searches the driver embedded data unit 32 for information such as a storage location and registry data necessary for incorporating the searched driver and HAL (step A53), and sends the result to the installation function unit 1 (step A54). The installation function unit 1 incorporates the driver and the HAL based on the result searched in step A53 in the same manner as the conventional embedding.

Further, a description will be given using a specific example. As shown in FIG. 4, for example, the driver attribute data section 31 includes HAL if the file name includes “hal”, a hard disk driver if “disk” is included, and “fd” if the file name includes “disk”. If it is, information such as a floppy disk driver is registered. Now, suppose that a floppy disk containing a file "necfd.sys" is inserted and the operating system installation is started.

The driver search function section 21 in the floppy disk searches the driver attribute data section 31 for which driver "necfd.sys" is. As a result of search, "necf
d.sys "is determined to be the floppy disk driver, and the character" FD "meaning the floppy disk driver is sent to the embedded information search function unit 22 (step A51). The embedded information of "" is searched from the driver embedded data section 32, and the search result "\ WINNT \ System32
\ drivers \ "to install function unit 1 (step A
53 and A54). The installation function unit 1 incorporates “necfd.dyd” based on the transmitted information. Thereafter, the installer sets the operating system environment and installs the operating system (step A6).

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. This embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that the storage location of the driver and the HAL that does not exist in the CD-ROM is a magnetic tape. When a magnetic tape is inserted, the installation function unit 1 searches the data processing unit 2 and the data unit 3 for information for incorporating a driver, obtains the information, and acquires the information. The present embodiment has an effect that by using a magnetic tape, the disk capacity is larger than that of a floppy disk, so that more drivers and HALs can be stored in one medium.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Drivers not on the operating system CD-ROM
Install HAL by automating the installation, that is, the driver and HAL stored on the floppy disk on CD
-It is possible to provide an operating system installation system in which the installation function in the ROM can be automatically recognized and incorporated. Also, if there is no driver or H
Since the AL can be embedded automatically, it is possible to reduce the user's input mistakes and the trouble of creating an information file to incorporate the driver and HAL.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of an operating system installation system according to the present invention.

[Fig. 2] Drivers stored on floppy disks
5 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of automatically recognizing and installing a HAL by an installation function in a CD-ROM.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of incorporating a driver and a HAL.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of data of a driver attribute data section and a driver embedded data section.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of another embodiment of an operating system installation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining a conventional operating system installation method.

[Explanation of symbols]

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 installation function unit 2 data processing unit 3 data unit 21 driver search function unit in floppy disk 22 embedded information search function unit 31 driver attribute data unit 32 driver embedded data unit

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An apparatus for reading an operating system from a medium on which an operating system is recorded and installing the operating system, when starting up the apparatus, checks for the existence of storage means for storing drivers and HAL files. In the operating system installation system that incorporates the driver or HAL into the device, an installation function for installing the operating system and data relating the driver in the storage device and the HAL file in the storage unit are stored. A driver attribute data portion, a data portion including a driver-incorporated data portion in which data relating to a storage location and registry information necessary for incorporating a driver and a HAL are stored, and On based on file name A driver search for searching for the type of driver or HAL stored in the driver attribute data section, and an embedded information search for searching for information for incorporating a driver or HAL based on the type of driver or HAL searched by the driver search described above. An operating system installation device, comprising: a data processing unit including: 2. The operating system installation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said storage means is a floppy disk. 3. The operating system installation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said storage means is a magnetic tape. 4. The operating system according to claim 1, wherein a driver and a HAL which are not stored in the medium are incorporated irrespective of whether or not a key operated by an installation operator is input. System installation device. 5. An installation function for installing an operating system stored in a storage medium and installing a driver and a HAL in a storage means, a drive attribute data section for defining a device and a HAL type from a file name, A driver and a HAL type are searched for in a data section having a driver built-in data section in which data on a storage location of a drive and a HAL and registry information are stored, and a driver attribute data section based on a file name in a storage means. Search for drivers in storage means and thus found drivers and HA
A data processing unit for performing an embedded information search for searching for information for embedding the driver and the HAL based on the type of L; and installing the operating system in a simplified installation method of the operating system installation system. A step of inserting a storage medium at the time of starting the apparatus, a step of confirming the presence or absence of a storage means storing the drive and the HAL, and, if there is such a storage means, inserting the storage means into the above apparatus and incorporating the drive and the HAL. Installing an operating system by setting an operating system environment and installing the operating system.