TWI521436B - Operation system installing method and operation system installing system - Google Patents

Description

Operating system installation method and operating system installation system

The present invention relates to an operating system mounting method and an operating system mounting system, and more particularly to an operating system mounting method and an operating system mounting system for installing an operating system by networking.

With the development of technology, computers have become an important electronic device that modern people are indispensable in their life or work. People rely on computers for entertainment, business, life and other applications, and the operating system (OS) is almost For the soul of the computer. In the prior art, if an operating system is to be installed in a computer, the installation CD of the operating system is generally placed in the CD player of the computer to execute the booting process, and then the operating system is installed into the hard disk. When the computer does not have a CD player or the user does not have a working system to install the CD, the user must download the operating system's installation file from another computer and use the utility program to write the operating system's installation file to the universal serial bus device. (Universal Serial Bus; USB), while the computer waiting for the operating system to be installed then uses USB to boot and install the operating system to its own hard drive.

However, it is not only inconvenient to install the operating system in such a manner as described above, and if the user does not have another computer, the operating system cannot be installed by the above method.

Therefore, how to provide an operating system installation method and an operating system installation system, which allows the user to install the operating system without installing the optical disc or without another computer has become an important issue. One.

In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an operating system mounting method and an operating system mounting system, which can be installed by a user without installing a compact disc or without another computer. .

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for installing an operating system, which is The system mounting system includes a processing component, a networking component, a first storage component, and a second storage component. The first storage component has a basic input/output system. The operating system installation method at least includes the steps of: receiving a boot signal to activate a basic input/output system; installing a driver corresponding to the network component; connecting the network component to a network, and receiving an operation from the network System installation file; storing the operating system installation file in the second storage component; and executing the operating system installation file.

In an embodiment of the invention, the method further includes the steps of: recording a component number corresponding to the second storage component; and executing a restarting process according to a reboot command, wherein the “execution operating system installation file” is executed according to the component number .

In an embodiment of the invention, the method further includes the steps of: providing a selected interface of the operating system; and receiving a selection command of the operating system, wherein the operating system selection instruction corresponds to the operating system.

In an embodiment of the invention, the basic input output system is implemented in a unified extendable firmware interface architecture.

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides an operating system mounting system including a processing component, a networking component, a first storage component, and a second storage component, the processing component being capable of receiving a boot signal, and the network The component is coupled to the processing component, the networking component is configured to connect to a network and is capable of receiving a working system installation file, the first storage component is coupled to the processing component, and the first storage component has a basic input/output system, and the basic input The output system has a driver corresponding to the networking component. When the processing component receives the boot signal, the basic input/output system is activated and the driver is installed, the second storage component is coupled to the processing component, and the second storage component is used. To store the operating system installation file, wherein the processing component is used to execute the operating system installation file.

In an embodiment of the invention, the basic input output system records a component number corresponding to the second storage component, and the processing component executes the operating system installation file in accordance with the component number.

In an embodiment of the invention, the basic input output system is implemented in a unified extendable firmware interface architecture.

In an embodiment of the invention, the networking component is a network card.

In an embodiment of the invention, the first storage element is a flash memory.

In an embodiment of the invention, the second storage component is a hard disk, a universal serial bus device or a compact disk.

In an embodiment of the invention, the processing component, the networking component, and the first storage component are included in an electronic device, and the second storage component is externally connected to the electronic device.

In an embodiment of the invention, the processing component, the networking component, the first storage component, and the second storage component are included in an electronic device.

In an embodiment of the invention, the electronic device is a computer.

In view of the above, the present invention provides an operating system installation method and an operating system installation system. When the basic input/output system is activated, the driver of the networked component is installed, so that the networked component is not yet powered on and has no operating system. In this case, the network has the ability to receive the operating system installation file from a network, so that the operating system installation system can execute the operating system installation file according to the component number to install the corresponding operating system. In short, the operating system mounting method of the present invention provides a different installation method than the prior art, so that the user can install the operating system without using the mounting optical disk or through another computer.

1‧‧‧Processing components

2‧‧‧Connected components

3‧‧‧First storage element

31‧‧‧Basic input and output system

311‧‧‧Driver

4‧‧‧Second storage element

N‧‧‧Network

S‧‧‧Operating system installation system

S10~S12, S20~S21, S30, S40, S50, S51, S60~S61, S70‧‧

1 is a schematic view of an operating system mounting system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flow chart showing the steps of an operating system installation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flow chart showing the steps of a method of installing an operating system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flow chart showing the steps of a method for installing an operating system according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the steps of a method for installing an operating system according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an operating system mounting method and an operating system mounting system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which the same elements will be denoted by the same reference numerals.

1 is a schematic view of an operating system mounting system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the steps of an operating system mounting method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The operating system mounting method shown in Fig. 2 can be applied to the operating system mounting system S shown in Fig. 1.

Please refer to FIG. 1 first. In this embodiment, the operating system installation system S is composed of one. Processing component 1, a networking component 2, a first storage component 3, and a second storage component 4, wherein the processing component 1 is coupled to the networking component 2, the first storage component 3, and the second storage component 4, respectively . In this embodiment, the processing component 1 can be a central processing unit (CPU) of the computer, the networking component 2 can be a network card of the computer, and the first storage component 3 can be a flash memory of the computer ( Flash memory), and the second storage component 4 can be a built-in hard disk of the computer. In other words, the processing component 1, the networking component 2, the first storage component 3, and the second storage component 4 are all included in the computer (electronic device) )in.

In addition, the second storage component 4 can also be an external hard disk electrically connected to a computer, a universal serial bus (USB) or a compact disc, in other words, the processing component 1, the networking component 2, and the first storage. The component 3 is included in a computer (electronic device), and the second storage component 4 is externally connected to a computer.

In this embodiment, the first storage element 3 has a basic input-output system (BIOS) 31. The basic input/output system 31 is a firmware, before the computer is installed with the operating system. That is, it is stored in the first storage element 3, and the basic input/output system 31 has a drive program 311 corresponding to the network element 2.

Next, please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 together. First, in step S10, a power-on signal is received to activate the basic input/output system 31. In the present embodiment, when the processing element 1 of the operating system mounting system S receives the power-on signal, that is, when the power of the computer is turned on, the basic input/output system 31 in the first storage element 3 will be activated. Since the basic input/output system 31 is used to manage the firmware of the computer hardware device, the basic input/output system 31 is preferentially activated when the computer is turned on. In more detail, the basic input/output system 31 is decompressed from the first storage element 3 to a main memory (not shown) and executed.

Next, in step S20, a driver 311 corresponding to the networking element 2 is mounted. In the present embodiment, after the basic input/output system 31 is activated, the driver 311 in the basic input/output system 31 is also mounted to the main memory. Since the driver 311 is a driver corresponding to the networking element 2, by this step, the networking element 2 completes the driving.

Next, in step S30, the networking component 2 is connected to a network N, and a working system installation file is received from the network N. Since the networking component 2 has been driven, the networking component 2 will have a networking function and be connected to the network N. And a server connected to the network N can be There is at least one operating system installation file, so that the networking component 2 can download the operating system installation file from the server via the network N. In this embodiment, different operating system installation files correspond to different operating systems. In detail, if the user wants to install a different operating system, different operating system installation files need to be executed. Different operating systems may be, for example, a Linux operating system, a Windows 8 operating system, or various other operating systems. If the user wants to install the Windows 8 operating system, the networking component 2 can be connected to the Microsoft server of the Windows 8 operating system to download the Windows 8 operating system installation file provided by Microsoft.

Next, in step S40 and step S60, the operating system installation file is stored in the second storage component 4, and the operating system installation file is executed. In the upper section, the operating system installation file received from the network N by the networking component 2 will be stored in the second storage component 4, and the second storage component 4 can be a hard disk, a USB or a CD-ROM (CD). -ROM). The processing component 1 can execute the operating system installation file stored in the second storage component 4 to install the corresponding operating system into the hard disk of the computer.

In this embodiment, the above-mentioned operating system installation method is implemented in a Universal Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI, hereinafter referred to as UEFI), and UEFI is a firmware specification. The aforementioned basic input/output system 31 is architecture and executed on the UEFI specification, so that the operating system installation system S has the networking capability without the operating system and having not completed the booting. In the prior art, other ways of using the network to boot, for example, using a pre-boot execution environment (PXE) for booting the network, the server device is pre-configured with a boot device, and the boot device provides a boot image to the boot device. The computer is turned on, and in this embodiment, the front end program of the booting program is installed by the driver 311 of the networking component 2 to connect to the network N by using the networking component 2 to perform the installation and booting process of the operating system. . In addition, the operating system installation method of the present embodiment provides a different installation method than the prior art, so that the user does not need to install the optical disc or through another computer to complete the installation of the operating system.

3 is a flow chart showing the steps of a method for installing an operating system according to another embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, the operating system mounting method of the present embodiment has substantially the same contents as the operating system mounting method shown in FIG. It can be applied to the operating system installation system S shown in Fig. 1. The following is only for different places. For other related contents, please refer to the above paragraph. No longer.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 3 together, in the embodiment, after step S40, in step S50, a component number corresponding to the second storage component 4 is recorded. In the preceding paragraph, the different types of second storage elements 4 correspond to different component numbers, for example, the component number of the hard disk is 0, the component number of the USB is 1, and the component number of the read-only memory optical disk is 2. Therefore, if the operating system installation file is stored in the hard disk, the corresponding component number 0 will be stored in the first storage component 3. In more detail, the component number can be recorded in the first storage component 3 A variable area that is written, which is defined by the basic input/output system 31.

Then, in step S51, the restart process is executed according to a reboot command. After the component number of the second storage component 4 is recorded in the first storage component 3, then the basic input/output system 31 issues a reboot command to the chipset (not shown), and the chipset will be reset. The processing element 1 is reset, causing the processing element 1 to resume execution of the boot process, or reboot. In more detail, processing element 1 will be re-executed from a particular starting point, and this particular starting point is the basic input-output system 31, in short, the basic input-output system 31 will be restarted.

Next, in step S61, the operating system installation file is executed in accordance with the component number. The processing element 1 will be powered on from the corresponding second storage element 4 (hard disk) according to the component number recorded in the first storage element 3 (the component number is, for example, 0: corresponding to the hard disk) to execute the second storage element The operating system in the 4 installs the file, and then executes the booting process and installs the corresponding operating system.

4 is a flow chart showing the steps of a method for installing an operating system according to still another embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, the operating system mounting method of the present embodiment has substantially the same contents as the operating system mounting method shown in FIG. It can be applied to the operating system installation system S shown in FIG. 1 , and the following is only for different places. For other related content, please refer to the foregoing paragraphs, and details are not described herein again.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 4 together, in the embodiment, step S21 is further included to provide a selected interface of the operating system to receive a selection command of the operating system. In detail, when the processing component 1 receives the power-on signal and the basic input/output system 31 is activated, an operating system selection program originally stored in the basic input/output system 31 will be called and installed, so that the computer is displayed on the screen. Corresponding to display a selected interface of the operating system, the operating system selected interface can provide multiple selections For users to select the type of operating system they want to install, different options (different URL links) can be connected to servers of different operating systems. Then, when the user selects one of the options through the input component (eg, keyboard), that is, when the operating system installation system S receives the user's operating system selection command, the network component 2 is connected to the corresponding website. To download the corresponding operating system installation file from the corresponding server, as in step S30, that is, the operating system selection instruction corresponds to the operating system to be installed by the user. In this embodiment, the execution sequence of step S20 and step S21 may be "step S20 is executed first, step S21 is executed" or "step S21 is executed first, step S20 is executed" or "step S20 and step" S21 is executed at the same time."

In other embodiments, different from the above manner, the networking component 2 can also be connected to an internal network of the enterprise, and the operating system selects an interface through the internal network of the enterprise, so that the user can select the operating system. In this way, since the selected interface of the operating system is not the operating system selection program written in advance in the basic input/output system 31, when the server's web link is changed, the change can be made on the intranet of the enterprise immediately. Here, the order of execution of steps S20 and S21 is "step S20 is executed first, and step S21 is executed later".

5 is a flow chart showing the steps of a method for installing an operating system according to still another embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 5, the operating system mounting method of the present embodiment has substantially the same contents as the operating system mounting method shown in FIG. It can be applied to the operating system installation system S shown in FIG. 1.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 5 together, in general, in the embodiment, after the processing component 1 receives the boot signal to activate the basic input/output system 31 (step S10), the basic input/output system 31 will determine the first Whether a component number has been stored in the storage component 3, as in step S11, if the determination result is "YES", it indicates that the operating system installation file has been stored in the second storage component 4 corresponding to the component number, so step S61 is continued to execute the job. System installation file. If the result of the determination in the step S11 is "NO", that is, the operating system installation system S does not have the operating system installation file, then in step S12, a working system installation interface is provided, and it is determined whether a working system installation instruction is received. In detail, since there is no operating system installation file in the operating system installation system S, the basic input/output system 31 can provide an operating system installation interface for the user to select whether to install the operating system, and if the user selects "No", Operating system installation system The system S does not receive the operating system installation command. Since there is no operating system installation file in the operating system installation system S and the user chooses not to install the operating system, the process proceeds to step S70, and the booting process is simply continued.

On the other hand, in step S12, if the user selects "Yes", that is, if there is no operating system installation file in the operating system installation system S, but if the operating system installation command is received, then step S20 is continued to perform subsequent steps. Network and download operating system installation files and other programs. For the subsequent steps S20 to S51, reference may be made to the content of the foregoing embodiment, and details are not described herein again. However, in step S51, since the restarting process receives the power-on signal again for the processing element 1 to restart the basic input-output system 31, step S10 can be continued. After the basic input/output system 31 is restarted, the basic input/output system 31 will again judge whether the component number has been recorded in the first storage component 3. If the operating system installation file is successfully stored in the second storage component 4, the component number should be It has been recorded, and therefore, step S61 is continued to perform the installation of the operating system. Please refer to the relevant paragraphs for the rest of the content, which will not be repeated here.

Since the execution sequence of step S11 of the embodiment is before step S12, after the system is restarted, if the component number has been recorded in the first storage component 3, the system directly installs the operating system (step S61). That is to say, the user does not see the operating system installation interface again (step S12), and the entire installation process is relatively simple and intuitive. In addition, it is specifically described herein that in other embodiments, the order of execution of steps S11 and S12 may be reversed.

Due to the operating system installation method of the embodiment, the operating system installation interface is provided for the user to select whether to install the operating system. Therefore, in practical applications, the operating system may be installed according to the user's requirements or the booting process may be directly executed to improve the whole process. Flexibility in the operating system installation process.

In summary, the present invention provides an operating system installation method and an operating system installation system. When the basic input/output system is activated, the driver of the networked component is installed, so that the networked component is not yet powered on and has no operating system. In this case, the network has the ability to receive the operating system installation file from a network, so that the operating system installation system can execute the operating system installation file according to the component number to install the corresponding operating system. In short, the operating system installation method of the present invention provides a different installation method than the prior art, so that the user does not need to use The operating system can be installed without installing another computer.

The above is intended to be illustrative only and not limiting. Any equivalent modifications or alterations to the spirit and scope of the invention are intended to be included in the scope of the appended claims.

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Claims (11)

An operating system mounting method is performed by an operating system mounting system including a processing component, a networking component, a first storage component, and a second storage component, the first storage component having a basic An input/output system, the operating system installation method comprising at least the steps of: receiving a boot signal to activate the basic input/output system; installing a driver corresponding to the network component; and connecting the network component to a network And receiving an operating system installation file from the network; storing the operating system installation file in the second storage component; recording a component number corresponding to the second storage component; performing a restarting process according to a reboot command; And executing the operating system installation file according to the component number. The operating system installation method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: providing a selected interface of the operating system; and receiving a selection command of the operating system, wherein the operating system selection instruction corresponds to an operating system. The operating system installation method of claim 1, wherein the basic input/output system is implemented in a unified extendable firmware interface. An operating system installation system includes: a processing component capable of receiving a boot signal; a networking component coupled to the processing component, the networking component configured to connect to a network and receive an operating system installation file a first storage element coupled to the processing element, the first storage element having a basic input output system having a driver corresponding to the network element, when the processing element receives the When the signal is turned on, the basic input/output system is activated and the driver is installed; and a second storage component is coupled to the processing component, the second storage component is configured to store the operating system installation file, the basic input The output system records a component number corresponding to the second storage element; The processing component executes the operating system installation file according to the component number. The operating system mounting system of claim 4, wherein the basic input/output system is implemented in a unified extendable firmware interface. The operating system installation system of claim 4, wherein the networking component is a network card. The operating system mounting system of claim 4, wherein the first storage component is a flash memory. The operating system mounting system of claim 4, wherein the second storage component is a hard disk, a universal serial bus device or a compact disk. The operating system mounting system of claim 4, wherein the processing component, the networking component, and the first storage component are included in an electronic device, and the second storage component is externally connected to the electronic device. The operating system mounting system of claim 4, wherein the processing component, the networking component, the first storage component, and the second storage component are included in an electronic device. The operating system mounting system of claim 9 or 10, wherein the electronic device is a computer.