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US 2010/0306760 A1Published application
Software setup system
OwnerJ. Scott Mulligan, Benjamin Bowes Beasley, JR.inventors
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Methods and apparatuses for automatic system setup. At least one embodiment of the present invention stores the setup configuration information (e.g., in files and/or in directory servers). The setup configuration information is stored (e.g., using a configuration file naming scheme) so that the configuration information for a particular machine can be found. A setup daemon on the machine searches for suitable configuration information in a number of places, such as: in a location in a local file system, in locations in mounted file volumes, and directory servers. The configuration information may be encrypted, and the setup daemon searches for the decryption key in a similar fashion.
A machine readable medium containing executable computer program instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause said system to perform a method to set up software on a storage device of the data processing system, the method comprising:
A method to set up software on a storage device of a data processing system, the method comprising:
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