CN101303654A - Method for installing computer operating system by adding disk image file - Google Patents

Abstract

The method for reducing file storage space comprises copying a main disk image file of an operating system to a storage device of a computer; copying a plurality of additional disk image files to the storage device; and installing the main disk image file of the operating system and at least one additional disk image file to the storage device of the computer. The plurality of additional disk image files are different language data packets, different language special software or different model data packets.

Description

Method for installing a computer operating system by attaching a disk image file

technical field

The invention relates to a method for processing disk image files, in particular to a method for installing an operating system to a computer by attaching disk image files.

Background technique

The operating system is the communication channel between the user and the computer. At present, the more common operating systems include Linux, Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS/2, NeXTStep, etc. Among them, Windows Vista is a new-generation operating system launched by Microsoft Corporation of the United States, and will issue as many as six versions, providing different options for different users. The Windows series of operating systems issued by Microsoft currently has a market share of 90% of the world's personal computers.

When installing multi-lingual (Multi-lingual) or multi-version (Multi-SKU) operating systems at present, the disk image files of each language or each type of operating system are usually stored as individual disks image file. Please refer to FIG. 1 . FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating disk image files of operating systems in multiple languages or versions in the prior art. As shown in Figure 1, assuming that an operating system includes three language versions (such as English, German and French), the operating system is made into three disk image files 120, 130, 140, wherein each disk image file The file size is 5GB. If these three disk image files 120, 130, 140 are stored in a first hard disk 110 of a first computer 100, then these disk image files 120, 130, 140 will occupy 15 GB of hard disk space. Next, these disk image files 120, 130, 140 are uploaded to an image server 150, and then, a second computer 160 downloads these disk image files 120, 130, 140 from the image server 150 through the network and stores them in a second hard disk 170 Inside. Assuming that the download speed of the second computer 160 is 0.5 GB/min, it takes a total of 30 minutes to download the disk image files 120 , 130 , 140 .

Since the disk image files of each language or each type of operating system are stored as separate disk image files, these disk image files will take up a lot of hard disk space or waste the storage space of the server. In addition, since the files of these disk image files are too large, it must take a lot of time to download.

Contents of the invention

The invention provides a method for installing an operating system to a computer by attaching a disk image file. The method includes copying a main disk image file of an operating system to a storage device of the computer, copying a plurality of additional disk image files to the storage device, and installing the main disk image file of the operating system and at least one additional disk image file to the storage device of the computer. The method also includes deleting unselected attached disk image files. Wherein, the plurality of additional disk image files are different language data packages, different language special software or different types of data packages.

The present invention provides another method for installing an operating system to a computer by attaching a disk image file. The method includes copying a primary disk image file of an operating system to a video server, copying at least two additional disk image files to the image server, and installing the primary disk image file and at least one additional disk image file of the operating system to the computer . The method also includes downloading the main disk image file of the operating system and the at least two additional disk image files from the image server to a second computer, installing the main disk image file of the operating system and the at least one additional disk image file on the second computer, and delete unselected attached disk image files. Wherein, the plurality of additional disk image files are different language data packages, different language special software or different types of data packages.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating disk image files of operating systems in multiple languages or models in the prior art.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating disk image files of multi-language or multi-model operating systems according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for installing an operating system to a computer by attaching a disk image file according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating disk image files of multi-language or multi-model operating systems according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for installing an operating system to a computer by attaching a disk image file according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating generating the additional disk image file of FIG. 2 .

Description of reference symbols

100, 200 The first computer

110, 210 The first hard disk

120, 130, 140 Disk image files

150, 250 Image server

160, 260 Second computer

170, 270 Second hard disk

220 main disk image file

221, 222, 223 Additional disk image files

30, 50 Process

302-310, 402-420, A-C steps

Detailed ways

Please refer to FIG. 2 . FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating disk image files of operating systems in multiple languages or models according to an embodiment of the present invention. Assuming an operating system includes three language versions (such as English, German and French), firstly, a main disk image file 220 of the operating system is generated, and then three additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 are generated. Among them, the file size of the main disk image file 220 is 4GB, and the file size of these three additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 is 1GB respectively, which are respectively the English language data package, the German language data package and the French language data package of the operating system. language pack. If the main disk image file 220 and the three additional disk image files 221 , 222 , 223 are stored in a first hard disk 210 of a first computer 200 , these disk image files will occupy 7 GB of hard disk space.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the operating system may include Microsoft Windows XP operating system or Windows Vista operating system, but it is not limited thereto, and may be other operating systems. Please note that the above additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 are only used to illustrate the embodiments of the present invention, and are not limitations of the present invention. The additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 can be different language data packets, Different language-specific software or different types of data packages. In addition, if the operating system includes more language versions or more models, the method of the present invention can save hard disk space and time for downloading files.

Please refer to FIG. 3 . FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a process 30 of a method for reducing file size by appending disk image files according to a first embodiment of the present invention. Process 30 includes the following steps:

Step 302: the process starts;

Step 304: Copy the main disk image file of an operating system to the first hard disk 210 of the first computer 200;

Step 306: Copy a plurality of additional disk image files to the first hard disk 210;

Step 308: Select an additional disk image file from the plurality of additional disk image files;

Step 310: installing the main disk image file of the operating system and the selected additional disk image file into the first hard disk 210 of the first computer 200;

Step 312: Delete the unselected additional disk image files.

Combined with Figure 2 to illustrate. First, copy the main disk image file 220 of the operating system to the first hard disk 210 of the first computer 200 (step 304 ). Next, copy the additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 to the first hard disk 210 (step 306). Assuming that the user wants to select the German language data package (additional disk image file 222) in step 308, then in step 310, the main disk image file 220 and the additional disk image file 222 are installed on the first hard disk of the first computer 200 In 210 , and at the end of step 312 , delete the English language data package (additional disk image file 221 ) and French language data package (additional disk image file 223 ) stored in the first hard disk 210 .

Please refer to FIG. 4 . FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating disk image files of operating systems in multiple languages or models according to another embodiment of the present invention. The difference between Fig. 4 and Fig. 2 is that Fig. 4 uploads the main disk image file 220 and these three additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 to an image server 250 in addition, and these disk image files will occupy 7GB of hard disk space; then , a second computer 260 downloads the main disk image file 220 and the three additional disk image files 221 , 222 , 223 from the image server 250 through the network and stores them in a second hard disk 270 . Assuming that the download speed of the second computer 260 is also 0.5 GB/min, it takes 14 minutes to download these disk image files in total.

In the above embodiments, the additional disk image files 221 , 222 , 223 are only used to illustrate the embodiments of the present invention, and are not limitations of the present invention. The additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 may be different language data packs, different language specific software or data packs of different models. In addition, if the operating system includes more language versions or more models, the method of the present invention can not only save more hard disk space, but also reduce the time for downloading.

Please refer to FIG. 5 . FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a process 50 of a method for reducing file size by appending disk image files according to a second embodiment of the present invention. Process 50 includes the following steps:

Step 402: the process starts;

Step 404: Copy the main disk image file 220 of an operating system to the first hard disk 210 of the first computer 200;

Step 406: Copy the main disk image file 220 of the operating system to the image server 250;

Step 408: copy at least two additional disk image files to the first hard disk 210 of the first computer 200;

Step 410: Copy at least two additional disk image files to the image server 250;

Step 412: Download the main disk image file 220 of the operating system and the at least two additional disk image files from the image server 250 to a second computer 260;

Step 414: Select an additional disk image file from the at least two additional disk image files;

Step 416: Install the main disk image file 220 of the operating system and the selected additional disk image file into the second hard disk 270 of the second computer 260;

Step 418; delete the unselected additional disk image files from the second computer 260;

Step 420: Select an additional disk image file from the at least two additional disk image files;

Step 422: Install the main disk image file 220 of the operating system and the selected additional disk image file into the first computer 200;

Step 424 : Delete the unselected additional disk image files from the first computer 200 .

It is now described in conjunction with FIG. 4 . First, copy the main disk image file 220 of the operating system to the first hard disk 210 of the first computer 200 (step 404), and store the main disk image file 220 of the operating system in the image server 250 (step 406). Next, copy the additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 to the first hard disk 210 of the first computer 200 (step 408), and store the additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 in the image server 250 (step 410). In step 412 , the second computer 260 downloads the main disk image file 220 and the additional disk image files 221 , 222 , 223 of the operating system from the image server 250 . Assuming that the user of the second computer 260 intends to select the German language data package (additional disk image file 222) in step 414, then in step 416, the main disk image file 220 and the additional disk image file 222 are installed on the second computer In step 260 , and in step 418 , the English language data package (additional disk image file 221 ) and the French language data package (additional disk image file 223 ) are deleted from the second computer 260 . On the other hand, assuming that the user of the first computer 200 intends to select the German language data package (additional disk image file 222) in step 420, then in step 422, the main disk image file 220 and the additional disk image file 222 are installed In the first computer 200 , and in step 424 , the English language data package (additional disk image file 221 ) and the French language data package (additional disk image file 223 ) are deleted from the first computer 200 .

Please refer to Figure 3 and Figure 5. The difference between the process 50 of FIG. 5 and the process 30 of FIG. 3 is that the process 30 only generates the main disk image file 220 and the additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 for use by the first computer 200, while the process 50 generates the main disk image file 220 And the additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 are uploaded to the image server 250 through the network, for other computers (such as the second computer 260) to download and use.

Please note that the process 30 and the process 50 are only feasible embodiments of the present invention, and are not limitations of the present invention, and the order of the steps therein can be changed according to the situation, and is not limited to the described order. For example, the first computer 200 can directly execute steps 418 and 420 without going through steps 406 and 410 to select and install desired additional disk image files. Alternatively, the first computer 200 can also download the main disk image file 220 and the additional disk image files 221 , 222 , 223 from the image server 250 (execute step 412 ), and then execute steps 418 , 420 .

Please refer to FIG. 6 , which is a schematic diagram illustrating generating the additional disk image files 221 , 222 , 223 in FIG. 2 . First, generate the main disk image file 220 (the file size is 4GB); then, install the English language data package on the main disk image file 220; finally, generate the additional disk image file 221 (the file size is 1GB). The above steps are repeated to generate the additional disk image file 222 and the additional disk image file 223 . Please note that if the operating system includes more language versions or more models, more additional disk image files can be generated by repeating the above steps.

The above-mentioned embodiments are only used to illustrate the present invention, and do not limit the scope of the present invention. The operating system mentioned in the article can be Microsoft Windows XP operating system or Windows Vista operating system, but is not limited thereto, and can also be other operating systems. The additional disk image files 221, 222, 223 may be different language data packs, different language specific software or different types of data packs, but are not limited thereto. In addition, the number of additional disk image files is not limited to three, and can also be extended to several, which can be changed according to actual applications. Furthermore, the process 30 and the process 50 are only feasible embodiments of the present invention, and are not limitations of the present invention, and the order of the steps therein can be changed according to the situation. The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and without departing from the spirit of the present invention, various design changes should fall within the scope of the present invention.

From the above, the present invention provides a method for installing an operating system to a computer by attaching a disk image file. Because the present invention stores the same part of the operating system in multiple languages or multiple models as a main disk image file 220, different parts are then stored as a plurality of additional disk image files (such as 221, 222, 223), compared to In the prior art, operating systems in multiple languages or models are stored as multiple disk image files (such as 120, 130, 140), which not only saves a lot of hard disk space, but also reduces the time for downloading files. In addition, if the operating system includes more language versions or more models, more hard disk space and time for downloading files can be saved through the method of the present invention.

The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and all equivalent changes and modifications made according to the claims of the present invention shall fall within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (17)

1. One kind by the additional disk image file for installing operating system to a computer method, this method includes:

   The main disk images file that duplicates an operating system is to a storage device of this computing machine;

   Duplicate a plurality of additional disk image files to this storage device; And

   The main disk images file of this operating system and at least one additional disk image file are installed to this storage device of this computing machine.
2. 2. the method for claim 1, it also comprises:

   The additional disk image file that deletion is not selected.
3. 3. method as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

   The additional disk image file that the additional disk image file that deletion is not selected is not selected for deletion in this computing machine.
4. 4. the method for claim 1, wherein this operating system system comprises the Windows XP of Microsoft operating system.
5. 5. the method for claim 1, wherein this operating system system comprises the Windows Vista of Microsoft operating system.
6. 6. the method for claim 1, wherein these a plurality of additional disk image files are different language data bag.
7. 7. the method for claim 1, wherein these a plurality of additional disk image files are different language special software.
8. 8. the method for claim 1, wherein these a plurality of additional disk image files packet that is different model.
9. One kind by the additional disk image file for installing operating system to a computer method, this method includes:

   Duplicate main disk images file to the image server of an operating system;

   Duplicate at least two additional disk image files to this image server; And

   The main disk images file of this operating system and at least one additional disk image file are installed to this computing machine.
10. 10. method as claimed in claim 9, it also comprises:

    Main disk images file and this at least two additional disk image file to one second computing machines from this this operating system of image downloaded.
11. 11. method as claimed in claim 10, it also comprises:

    The main disk images file of this operating system and at least one additional disk image file are installed to this second computing machine; And

    The additional disk image file that deletion is not selected.
12. 12. method as claimed in claim 11, wherein:

    Install the main disk images file of this operating system and at least one additional disk image file to this second computing machine for main disk images file that this operating system is installed and at least one additional disk image file of being selected to this second computing machine; And

    The additional disk image file that the additional disk image file that deletion is not selected is not selected for deletion in this second computing machine.
13. 13. method as claimed in claim 9, wherein this operating system system comprises the Windows XP of Microsoft operating system.
14. 14. method as claimed in claim 9, wherein this operating system system comprises the WindowsVista of Microsoft operating system.
15. 15. method as claimed in claim 9, wherein these a plurality of additional disk image files are different language data bag.
16. 16. method as claimed in claim 9, wherein these a plurality of additional disk image files are different language special software.
17. 17. method as claimed in claim 9, wherein these a plurality of additional disk image files packet that is different model.

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