Abstract: In a method for installing software, distinct image files, each of which corresponds to a software bundle resident in a reference storage medium of a reference computer that was built according to a specified hardware and software configuration, stored in a master storage medium of a server that is coupled to the reference computers via a communications network are copied into copying storage media installed in copying computers. Each copying computer is configured to copy a selected image file in the copying storage medium that is installed therein into a corresponding target storage medium, which is coupled externally thereto via a connector unit. The selected image file corresponds to hardware configuration of a target computer and having a desired software configuration.