Recordable optical disc and apparatus therefor including operating system and user configuration
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1. An optical disc comprising:
- a system region in which data is read by a computer and a user cannot record data; and
a data region in which data can be recorded, wherein at least one operating system and information thereof are recorded in the system region and user configuration setting information having configuration variables of users, who use the computer, is recorded in the data region.
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Abstract
A recordable optical disc containing various operating systems and user configurations and an apparatus reading from and recording onto the same are provided. The optical disc has a system region in which data is read by a computer and a user cannot record data therein, and a data region in which data can be recorded, in which at least one operating system and information thereof are recorded in the system region, and user configuration setting information having configuration variables of users is recorded in the data region. The optical disc records various operating systems, application programs and user configurations so that multiple users can use various types of computers or game systems.
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1. An optical disc comprising:
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a system region in which data is read by a computer and a user cannot record data; and
a data region in which data can be recorded, wherein at least one operating system and information thereof are recorded in the system region and user configuration setting information having configuration variables of users, who use the computer, is recorded in the data region. - View Dependent Claims (2, 5)
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3. A computer supporting an optical disc containing computer operating systems, the computer comprising:
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a central processing unit (CPU);
a random-access-memory (RAM) storing a boot program and operating system controlling the CPU;
an optical disc player reading the operating system from the optical disc;
a boot program storage medium storing a boot program which controls the booting operation of the computer and contains at least a driver of the optical disc player and a loader program controlling the optical disc player to read the operating system and load the operating system on the RAM; and
a linker having information on the location in which the boot program is recorded, reading the boot program from the boot program storage medium, referring to the location information, and loading the boot program on the RAM. - View Dependent Claims (4)
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6. An optical disc comprising:
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a read only system region having at least one operating system recorded therein; and
a data region wherein user configuration setting information can be read from and written into.
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