CONTROLLING THE INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION OF PROGRAMS AND COMPONENTS IN A NETWORK OF SERVER AND CLIENT COMPUTERS THROUGH ENTRIES INTO A PRIMARY SERVER COMPUTER

A method for the configuration of a network made up of server and client computers is provided, which involves the setting of a primary server having an interactive display and the installation of all of the application programs and the driver programs, which may be required to support internal and external components of all of the other server and client computers in the network which is controlled through entries to the interactive display interface of said primary server computer. Similarly, the operating system installation for the server and client computers may be controlled through entries to this primary server computer interface. Also, adapters required by the other server and client computers to support various components are selected through entries made through the interface to the primary server computer.