Review last lecture

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Review last lecture

• Pre-installation checks

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Post Installation

• Identify installation problems
• Install patches, upgrades, service packs
• MS announces patches for individual patches,
  bundle many patches together into service pack,
  patches and service packs can be downloaded and
  installed as updates
• Install or upgrade to the latest device drivers
• Restore user data files if necessary

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Installing/Upgrading Win 9x/Me
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Pre-Installation

• Must follow checklist of items before installing
  O/S (refer to previous lecture)
• Follow this checklist for Win 9x/Me

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Minimum Hardware Requirements

• MS gives very low hardware requirements for Win
  9x/Me
• Different MS documentation (online, printed) give
  different values
• Refer to official values in handout (left column)
• Compare them to more realistic values in the
  right column

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Setup Disk

• Win9x/Me can only be installed on a partitioned,
  formatted hard drive
• All Win9x come with setup boot disk
• Boot disk detects unpartitioned/unformatted
  drive, asks if you want to partition and format

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Setup continued

• Win Me CD is itself bootable, allows you to
  prepare the hard drive
• Both Win9x and Me can be installed on a
  pre-existing FAT partition
• Refer to figure 14-3 start up screen for win 98

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Setup cont.

• Instead of using setup disk, boot directly from
  CD-ROM
• Your pc must be able to boot from CD drive (check
  CMOS)
• Note Win 98 and Me CD-ROMs are bootable, Win 95
  installation CD-ROMs are not-must use bootable
  floppy

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File System FAT16 vs FAT32

• Always use FAT32 for clean install and upgrade
• 2 main reasons for keeping 1 FAT16 partition
• Use a previous version of MS-DOS to run old DOS
  programs
• Your version of Wn95 might not support FAT32

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Installation Process

• Clean install begins in text mode refer to figure
  14-3
• After reboot, installation proceeds in graphic
  mode
• If setup started, will prompt you to partition
  and format drive
• Follow instructions
• Installation tip copy all install files to hard
  drive. Start install from there. Makes install
  faster
• ScanDisk started, checks for monitor and mouse,
  loads important install files

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Graphical Mode

• Prompt for Component Options
• Refer to Setup options on page 615
• Users familiar with Win can choose custom to
  configure and install specific components
• Compact option does not install many features
  needed by users

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Continued

• Prompt for product key
• Installation directory (fig 14-8)
• Clean install always asks for a directory
  (default C\Windows)
• Same folder must be used when upgrading from
  Win95-98
• If different folder used, clean install of Win 98
  occurs

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Continued

• Prompt to create a start up disk
• Different from Win boot disk, cannot run setup
  from start up menu
• Copies some useful utilities
• Prompt to save system files, allows you to
  uninstall win 98 or win Me from the control panel

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Hardware Detection

• Plug-N-Play feature searches for hardware and
  installs appropriate drivers
• Will prompt the user for driver disk if not
  present on the hard drive

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Win NT 4.0 Workstation

• Most install steps are the same as Windows 95
• NT usually installed on older machines
• NT is NOT plug-n-play
• Must check the NT Hardware Compatibility List
• HCL is located on the CD ( \Support\HCL.HLP)

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NT 4.0 Cont.

• List the minimum requirements on page 617
• NT supports FAT16 and NTFS4 file systems
• NTFS recommended because improved security and
  stability supports partitions larger than 2 GB

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NT 4.0 Cont.

• NT assumes your are installing on a networked
  computer
• NT can be installed on standalone pc (install
  process gives you the option to skip the network
  setup)
• MUST install all patches and upgrades since NT is
  very old
• Service Pack 6a contains all the latest upgrades
  and patches

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Win 2000 Professional

• Before installing, check that system meets
  minimum requirements (page 618)
• Hardware must be supported by Win 2000 OS
• Verify compatibility by checking the HCL

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Win 200 Pro Cont.

• Installation process begins in text mode,
  reboots, continues in graphics mode
• SETUP.EXE examines HD to determine existing
  partitions and file systems
• Option to install on existing partition or create
  new partition for installation
• Boot partition should be at least 1 GB

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File Systems (Win 2000 Pro)

• Supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
• FAT Win 2000 setup will automatically format HD
  with FAT16 if partition is less than 2 GB and
  FAT32 if partition is more than 2GB

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NTFS5

• Advantages
• Assign disk quotas to users
• Encrypt files, folders
• Support Win 2000 Dynamic Disk configurations

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Networking (Win 2000 Pro)

• Win 2000 is optimized for networking with other
  computers
• Following are installed by default
• Client for Microsoft Networks
• File, printer sharing for Microsoft Networks
• Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
• You are given the option of joining a workgroup
  or domain

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Win XP Pro

• Can upgrade from the following versions of
  Windows
• Win 98 (all versions)
• Win Me
• Win NT 4.0 Workstation (Service Pack 5 and later)
• Win 2000 Pro (including service packs)
• Win XP Home Edition

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XP Pro (minimum requirements)

• List from page .

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Windows Installation/Upgrade
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Preparation

• Prior planning prevents poor performance
• Installing an O/S must follow a detailed
  checklist for the best result
• Following tasks must be performed even before you
  insert CD-ROM

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Identify Hardware Requirements

• Help you to decide whether a system is a suitable
  host for a particular operating system.
• Requirements include
• CPU model
• RAM
• Free hard disk space
• Video adapter
• Monitor
• Other storage devices, drives needed to install
  and run O/S

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Hardware/Software Compatibility

• Must make sure that the hardware and applications
  are compatible with O/S you wish to install
• 2 sources for this info
• Microsoft
• Manufacturer of device or software
• Check Microsofts Hardware Compatibility List on
  the web microsoft.com

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Cont.

• If your device not listed in HCL, consult CD-ROMs
  provided by manufacturer for drivers
• Check manufacturers web site for latest drivers
• For software, manufacturer should provide upgrade
  packs.

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Clean Install/Upgrade

• Clean Installation means completely empty hard
  drive with no O/S installed
• Upgrade means installing newer version of Windows
  O/S on top of existing O/S

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Clean Install

• Advantage no problems carried over from the old
  operating system
• Disadvantage all applications have to be
  reinstalled, each application reconfigured to
  users preferences
• Must format and partition hard drive from scratch

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Multi-Boot

• Variation of clean install
• Install O/S into a different subdirectory or onto
  a different volume on hard drive
• Old O/S is still intact
• Use boot menu to select the O/S at start up
• Not recommended

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Upgrade

• New O/S installs into same folders
• New installs on top of the old
• Old O/S replaced but data, settings for hardware,
  applications saved
• To begin upgrade, run appropriate program from CD

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Back up/Restore Existing Data

• Back up user data in case hard drive is damaged
• Find out if user is saving data locally or
  network drive
• If data saved locally, hard drive must be backed
  up
• After installation, restore data to local drive

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Select Installation Method

• How you start installation
• Location of source files
• Manual, Unattended (automated)

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Bootable CD/Boot Floppy

• Upgrading run set up program from within old O/S
• Clean install
• No existing O/S to run set up

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Other Install Methods

• In large organizations, not feasible to install
  on each individual machine
• Source files placed on a shared directory on
  network server
• Installation may proceed according to a special
  script (automatically select options and
  components needed)
• Scripts can even install specific applications
  without user input

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Image Install

• Image is complete copy of a hard disk volume on
  which an O/S and applications are preinstalled
• Images can be on CD-copy image to local hard
  drive using special software
• Images on network servers-connect to server and
  copy image to local drive using special software

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Partition Hard Disk/ Choose File System

• Clean Install must choose file system before
  partition (how many, what size)
• No Mulit-Bootuse most advance file system your
  version of Windows supports
• Multi-boot Lowest common denominator rule,
  choose file system so that boot sector must be
  usable by oldest O/S
• Once file system selected, size and number of
  partitions can be decided

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To find out

• Post installation tasks
• Identifying installation problems
• Patches, updates, service packs
• Upgrading drivers
• Restoring user data files