| 摘要 |
Disclosed herein is apparatus and a method of installing a computer operating system on a data storage medium of a computer system. The computer system includes a processor and the data storage medium. The apparatus and method includes reading the data storage medium for a set of storage medium characteristics including the partition boundaries of each existing partition on the data storage medium. An identification of the operating system to be installed on the data storage medium is then received, typically in the form of a user input signal. The installation characteristic set of the identified operating system is then retrieved from an operating system rule database of the computer system, which rule database can contain a set of installation characteristics for each of a plurality of identified operating systems including a space required by each operating system on the storage medium. The read data storage medium characteristic set is compared with the retrieved operating system installation characteristic set. When the two sets differ by one or more characteristics, at least one of the data storage medium characteristics is modified so that the operating system can be installed on the data storage medium. The modifications can, for example, include one or more of moving an existing storage medium partition, resizing an existing storage medium partition, or establishing a new storage medium partition. Following the foregoing preparation of the storage medium, the operating system will typically be installed on the data storage medium.
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