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- Installing
- Windows XP Professional
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- Understand how to install and upgrade Windows XP Professional
- Plan an installation or upgrade
- Install Windows XP using a CD-ROM or the Network
- Understand the installation process
- Describe the advanced installation options
- Remove Windows XP Professional
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- BOOT.INI file
- Text file that creates Windows XP boot loader’s menu
- If you plan to use more than one OS, it’s 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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- Important to check hardware against the HCL
- Also important to consider:
- Type of installation you want to perform
- Partition on which the OS files will be stored and how that partition
is to be formatted
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Bootable CD-ROM
- Windows XP Professional is self-booting
- CD-ROM launch from existing OS
- Setup process can be launched from an existing OS or from a boot floppy
that contains CD-ROM drivers
- Creating setup boot floppies
- If set-up boot floppies aren’t available, you’ll have to create them
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- A text-only format is launched initially if setup is launched from:
- Setup boot floppies
- Bootable CD-ROM drive
- DOS
- Setup later switches into a GUI format
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- Setup opens a graphical Setup Wizard if it is launched from:
- Any other Windows OS
- Local CD-ROM drive
- Network share
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- The Windows setup method employs an initialization wizard to preselect
or predefine several setup options
- An upgrade installation retains as much of the existing system
information as possible
- A clean installation ignores all existing settings
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- Advanced installations proceed in much the same manner as a manual
installation, except that an answer file is used to provide the
responses to all setup prompts
- In addition, answer files can be used to install additional applications
after the OS installation is complete
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- Unattended installation
- Windows XP installation that uses a script and does not require user
interaction
- Uniqueness database file (UDF)
- Text file that contains a partial set of instructions for installing
Windows XP
- Setup Manager
- Windows XP tool that provides you with a GUI for creating an answer
file
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- You can create a UDF in a text editor such as EDIT or Notepad
- When you’ve finished a UDF, save it as a text file and store it on disk
- It is often helpful to name UDFs for the people using them
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- RIS is used to push installations over a network to a client
- RIS can install Windows XP on clients that have:
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) PXE-based remote boot ROM
- RIS boot disk-supported network adapter (NIC)
- Existing OS
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- 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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- 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
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- SYSDIFF
- Windows XP utility used to take a snapshot of a basic installation and
after the changes have been made, record the changes and apply them to
another installation
- You can use the SYSDIFF in combination with an unattended installation
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- 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
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- 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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- Command line syntax for the WINNT command:
- /S[:sourcepath]
- /T[:tempdrive]
- /U[:answer_file]
- /UDF:id[,UDF_file]
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- Command line syntax for the WINNT command (cont.):
- /R[folder]
- /Rx[:folder]
- /E
- /A
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- Command line syntax for the WINNT32 command:
- /checkupgradeonly
- /cmd:command_line
- /cmdcons
- /copydir:i386\folder_name
- /copysource:folder_name
- /debug[level]:[filename]
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- Command line syntax for the WINNT32 command (cont.):
- /dudisable
- /duprepare:pathname
- /dushare:pathname
- /m:folder_name
- /makelocalsource
- /noreboot
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- Command line syntax for the WINNT32 command (cont.):
- /s:sourcepath
- /syspart:drive_letter
- /tempdrive:drive_letter
- /udf:id[,UDB_file]
- /unattend
- /unattend[num]:[answer_file]
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- Many people create a DOS boot partition that’s 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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- 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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- Installing Windows XP is not difficult
- Easier than process for installing Windows 2000
- Almost as simple as the process for Windows 98
- There are two major parts to the setup
- The text-only portion
- The GUI portion
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- The Windows XP installation procedure is fairly self-regulating and
self-healing
- In most cases, if you hit a snag, you can resolve the issue by either:
- Starting over
- Just rebooting
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- 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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- 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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- Understand the steps to install and uninstall Windows XP
- Be familiar with all the tools and information used in the installation
and uninstallation process
- Understand how to choose hardware for a successful installation
- Understand how to install locally and over a network
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- Understand how to use the switches that come with WINNT and WINNT32
- Understand how to run setup
- Be familiar with the differences between upgrading and installing
Windows XP
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