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Chapter Two

Chapter Two. Installing Windows XP Professional. Objectives. 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

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Chapter Two

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  1. Chapter Two Installing Windows XP Professional

  2. Objectives • 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

  3. Upgrading Versus Installing • 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

  4. 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

  5. Upgrading Versus Installing Figure 2-1: Choosing the upgrade options from the Windows Setup Wizard

  6. 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

  7. Booting Multiple Operating Systems Figure 2-2: the Windows XP Professional boot menu

  8. Booting Multiple Operating Systems • 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

  9. Planning the Installation • 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

  10. Planning the 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

  11. Planning the Installation • 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

  12. 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

  13. Types of Installations • 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

  14. Important Setup Option Differences • 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

  15. Important Setup Option Differences • Setup opens a graphical Setup Wizard if it is launched from: • Any other Windows OS • Local CD-ROM drive • Network share

  16. Important Setup Option Differences • 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

  17. Advanced Installation Options • 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

  18. Automated Installations • 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

  19. Answer Files and UDFs • 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

  20. Remote Installation Service (RIS) • 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

  21. Remote Installation Service (RIS) • 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

  22. Remote Installation Service (RIS) • 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

  23. Using the SYSDIFF Utility • 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

  24. 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

  25. WINNT and 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

  26. WINNT • Command line syntax for the WINNT command: • /S[:sourcepath] • /T[:tempdrive] • /U[:answer_file] • /UDF:id[,UDF_file]

  27. WINNT • Command line syntax for the WINNT command (cont.): • /R[folder] • /Rx[:folder] • /E • /A

  28. WINNT32 • Command line syntax for the WINNT32 command: • /checkupgradeonly • /cmd:command_line • /cmdcons • /copydir:i386\folder_name • /copysource:folder_name • /debug[level]:[filename]

  29. WINNT32 • Command line syntax for the WINNT32 command (cont.): • /dudisable • /duprepare:pathname • /dushare:pathname • /m:folder_name • /makelocalsource • /noreboot

  30. WINNT32 • 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]

  31. Partitioning the Hard Disk • 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

  32. 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

  33. Windows XP Professional Setup • 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

  34. Troubleshooting an Installation • 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

  35. 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

  36. Removing Windows XP Professional • 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

  37. Chapter Summary • 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

  38. Chapter Summary • 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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