NCR 7454 - Gold Disk Contents; Microsoft Operating System License Agreements

Chapter 4: Operating System Recovery 4-9
Gold Disk Contents
ThissectiondescribesthecontentsofeachoftheGoldDiskImages,
includingalltheadditionsandchangesthatweremadeontopofthe
genericoperatingsystem.
Important: Foreachoperatingsystem,NCRstronglyrecommends
thatthedriversplacedinthec:\installdirectorybelefttherefor
thepurposesof
servicingandmaintainingthesystem.Ifyouareusing
theinformationinthissectiontobuildyourownoperatingsystem
imageandnotusingNCR’sprovidedOSRecoveryimageasabase
image,thenwerecommendthatallinstalleddriversbeplacedina
similarc:\installdirectoryforsupport.
Microsoft Operating System License Agreements
WhenpurchasingaworkstationorkioskpreloadedwithaMicrosoft
operatingsystem,theapplicationprovidermustfollow certainlicense
agreementguidelines.Listedbelowaresomeofthemajorpointsof
Microsoft’s“EmbeddedSoftware”agreement,whichcurrentlycovers
DOS,Win3.11,Windows95,Windows98,WindowsNT,Windows
2000,andWindowsXPe.
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• Theenduserapplicationshouldnotpermittheuser(typicallya
cashier)toexittheapplicationsothattheymaybeabletobrowse
theoperatingsystemdesktop,explorer,orotherMicrosoft
operatingsystemuserinterfaceelements.Thisdoesnotapplyto
servicing,upgrading,ordiagnosingproblemsforthe
workstation
byservicesorfieldengineers.Thisrestrictionismeanttoensure
thattheenduserisonlypermittedtonavigatewithintheconfines
oftheenduser’sapplicationundernormaloperatingconditions.
• TheNCROSRecoveryimagecanonlybeusedtorecoverorupdate
systemswithlicensesprocured
fromNCR.