Installing Windows XP Professional

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Installing Windows XP Professional

• Chapter Two

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Upgrading Versus Installing

• Upgrade an existing installation
• When you have a version of Windows NT 4.0
  Workstation or Server already installed and want
  to retain existing desktop and network
  configuration
• Perform a fresh installation
• On a system with a blank hard drive
• Over an existing operating system
• To create a multiboot system

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Booting Multiple Operating Systems

• Windows XP can be installed as an upgrade over an
  existing installation of following operating
  systems
• Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and
  Windows Me
• Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
• Windows 2000 Professional
• Windows XP Home
• To migrate from any other OS not include on this
  list requires a full or clean installation

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Upgrading Versus Installing

• Typically, you would select an upgrade
  installation when you want to retain you existing
  desktop, system settings, and network
  configuration
• Multi-boot system
• Computer that hosts two or more operating system
  that can be booted to by selecting one from a
  boot menu or boot manager each time the computer
  is booted up

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Install vs. Upgrading
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Booting Multiple Operating Systems
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Boot.ini

• BOOT.INI file
• Text file that creates Windows XP boot loaders
  menu
• If you plan to use more than one OS, its
  important to consider
• Which file system to use
• Whether data must be accessible to more than one
  OS on the same machine

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Booting Multiple Operating Systems

• Unless you deliberately overwrite, or format, the
  partition or volume where another OS is located,
  installing Windows XP Professional will not
  affect another OS already installed on the same
  computer
• You can create a dual-boot system with Windows XP
  and other operating systems
• The boot loader is the software that
• Shows all currently available operating systems
• Permits you to choose which OS should be booted

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Planning the Installation

• Check hardware against the HCL
• Consider the type of installation
• Manual (CD-ROM and network)
• Unattended
• Consider the partition on which the OS files will
  be stored and how that partition is to be
  formatted

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Planning Installation

• You can perform an upgrade installation if your
  situation meets all of the following conditions
• Current OS is supported as a platform that
  Windows XP Professional can upgrade
• You want to replace your current OS with Windows
  XP, retaining as much configuration and setting
  information as possible
• You are prepared to handle problems that may
  occur under Windows XP that are not present under
  current OS

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Types of Installations

• Installing over the network
• Installing with or without floppy disks
• Creating setup boot floppies

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Types of Installations

• You can perform a fresh installation if at least
  one of the following is true
• Your system has a freshly formatted hard drive,
  or a new blank hard drive has just been installed
• You wish to install Windows XP over your existing
  OS, but that OS is on the list of operating
  system,s that support upgrading to Windows XP
• You want to replace your existing OS with Windows
  XP
• You want to create a dual-boot or multi-boot
  configuration with the existing operating
  system(s) and Windows XP

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Types of Installations

• Installing over the network
• Launch the Setup routine from a network share
  instead of local device
• CD-ROM installation launched from setup boot
  floppies
• The most common installation method is using the
  five set-up boot disks (or floppies) to initiate
  the installation from a local CD-ROM drive

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Partitioning the Hard Disk

• Active partition
• The partition that houses the Windows XP boot
  files

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Unattended Installations

• Use a previously made script to install from
• Do not require user interaction
• Can save time if installation is required on
  several machines
• Setup Manager
• Windows XP tool that provides you with a GUI for
  creating an answer file
• Can be used to create a variety of installation
  scripts

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Uniqueness Database File (UDF)

• A text file that contains a partial set of
  instructions for installing Windows XP, to
  specify settings for individual users
• Used to supplement an answer file
• Can streamline multiple duplicate installations

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Creating the UDF

• Use a text editor such as EDIT or Notepad
• Save it as a text file and store it on a disk

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Beginning the Windows XP Professional Installation

• CD-ROM installation launched from setup boot
  floppies
• Bootable CD-ROM
• CD-ROM launched from existing OS
• Network installation

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CD-ROM Installation Launched from Setup Boot
Floppies

• Most common method
• Preferred method in any of following
  circumstances
• You must manually install storage drivers
• An existing OS is not present
• Network access is not available

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Bootable CD-ROM

• Windows XP Professional CD-ROM is self-booting
• Faster than floppy launch method
• Does not allow manual installation of storage
  drivers
• Can be used regardless of the presence of an OS
  on the system or network access

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CD-ROM Launched from Existing OS

• Requires the execution of the Winnt or Winnt32
  file from the \i386 directory

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Network Installation

• Requires an existing OS (or a boot floppy) and
  network access
• A drive letter on the destination computer must
  be mapped to the shared drive or folder and then
  the Winnt or Winnt32 command launched

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Setup Options

• DOS setup method
• Launched from setup boot floppies, a bootable
  CD-ROM drive, or from DOS (from either a local
  CD-ROM or a network share)
• Launches in a text-only format initially later
  switches into a GUI format
• Windows setup method
• Launched from Windows 95, 98, or NT from a local
  CD-ROM drive or from a network share
• Opens a GUI setup wizard

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Winnt and Winnt32 Advanced Setup Options

• Winnt
• 16-bit setup tool designed to be launched from
  DOS and operating systems that rely upon DOS
• Designed for standard and automated installations
  with few additional options
• Winnt32
• 32-bit set-up tool designed to be launched from
  32-bit operating systems
• Designed for standard and automated installations
• Also offers several options for source and
  destination locations as well as debug logging

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Advanced Setup Options

• Often used in enterprise network deployments
• Require significant preparation work and
  preconfiguration of systems and setup scripts

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Advanced Setup Options

• Remote Installation Service (RIS)
• Used to push an installation of Windows XP over
  a network to a client
• RIS is used to push installations over a network
  to a client
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
  PXE-based remote boot ROM
• RIS boot disk-supported network adapter (NIC)
• Existing OS
• Steps for employing RIS
• Verify systems comply with hardware requirements
• Install a Windows 2000 or .NET Server as a
  stand-alone/member server
• If DNS is not already present in the domain,
  install it
• Promote the Windows Server as a domain controller

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Advanced Setup Options

• Steps for employing RIS (cont.)
• If DHCP is not already present on the domain,
  install it
• Initiate the configuration procedure for RIS by
  launching RISETUP.EXE from the Run command
• Authorize RIS with Active Directory through the
  DHCP Manager
• Use the Directory Management snap-in to further
  configure RIS and define remote installation
  parameters
• Windows Installer Service (WIS)
• Manages the installation and removal of
  applications by applying a set of centrally
  defined setup rules during the installation
  process

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Windows XP Professional Setup Step by Step

• Pre-setup assumptions
• HCL-compliance
• Absence of preexisting operating systems
• Availability of four setup floppies
• Selection of default or typical settings for the
  installation
• Use of a specific IP address
• Membership in an existing domain

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Windows XP Professional Setup

• Text-only portion of setup
• Employs a DOS setup method
• GUI portion of setup
• Takes place in GUI mode in a pseudo-Windows-XP
  environment where you provide configuration
  details

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Removing Windows XP Professional

• Unlike most other Windows operating system,
  Windows XP offers an uninstall or rollback
  capability
• It is supported only when an upgrade is performed
  over Windows 95/98/OSR2/Me

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Removing Windows XP Professional

• Manually Removing Windows XP Professional
• Destroy the boot and system partitions (where
  Windows XP has made its mark), then repartition,
  format, and install another operating system
• Delete all Windows XP files from the FAT
  partition and rebuild the master boot record
• Destroying partitions
• Possibly the easiest method to remove Windows XP
  is to destroy the installation and start fresh
  with some other OS
• Be sure to first remove all data you consider
  important
• If you installed Windows XP onto a FAT partition
  smaller than 2 GB, you may to remove it from your
  computer without performing above the destroy
  method

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Destroying Partitions

• Easiest method
• Backup any important data first

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Removing Windows XP from FAT

• An available option only if Windows XP was
  installed into a FAT partition less than 2 GB in
  size
• Only works if you have not used NTFS partitions
  at all
• Backup any important data first

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WINNT vs. WINNT32

• WINNT
• 16-bit setup tool
• Designed to be launched from DOS and operating
  systems that rely upon DOS
• WINNT32
• 32-bit setup tool
• Designed to be launched from 32-bit operating
  systems

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WINNT

• Command line syntax for the WINNT command
• /Ssourcepath
• /Ttempdrive
• /Uanswer_file
• /UDFid,UDF_file

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WINNT32

• Command line syntax for the WINNT32 command
• /checkupgradeonly
• /cmdcommand_line
• /cmdcons
• /copydiri386\folder_name
• /copysourcefolder_name
• /debuglevelfilename

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WINNT32

• Command line syntax for the WINNT32 command
  (cont.)
• /ssourcepath
• /syspartdrive_letter
• /tempdrivedrive_letter
• /udfid,UDB_file
• /unattend
• /unattendnumanswer_file

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Partitioning the Hard Disk

• Many people create a DOS boot partition thats
  accessible when booting from a floppy
• Active partition
• Houses the Windows XP boot files
• To partition the hard disk before setup, you can
  use
• The DOS FDISK
• The partitioning interface encountered during
  setup

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Activating Windows XP

• Product activation
• Mechanism by which a product has a finite initial
  functional lifetime
• Activation has both benefits and drawbacks
• After initial installation, you have 30 days to
  activate your product before it will no longer
  function fully

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Using SYSPREP

• SYSPREP
• System duplication tool used to duplicate an
  entire hard drive
• Tool is useful when installing Windows XP onto
  multiple identical systems
• Each system must have at least closely matching,
  if not almost identical, core hardware
  configurations