MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing ...

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not support booting from CD, you can create a set of floppy disks that will start the
computer and then initiate setup from the CD. After the installation has started, this
method proceeds just like booting from CD.
See Also Microsoft makes the tools for creating boot floppy disks for Windows XP
Professional Edition and Windows XP Home Edition available for download. Visit http://
www.microsoft.com/downloads and search by using the keywords Windows XP boot floppy to
locate these utilities.
If a computer is already running a previous version of Windows, you can simply insert
the Windows XP installation CD and use a setup wizard to begin the installation. Setup
gives you the choice of upgrading the existing operating system or performing a clean
installation.
Figure 2-3 shows the six steps involved in the text mode stage of Setup.
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Lesson 2 Installing Windows XP Professional from a CD-ROM
Load Setup program into memory
2 Start text-based Setup program
3 Create the Windows XP Professional partition
4 Format the Windows XP Professional partition
5 Copy setup files to the hard disk
6 Restart the computer
Setup Wizard
Figure 2-3 There are six steps in the text mode stage of Setup.
Running the Setup program involves the following steps:
1. After the computer starts, a minimal version of Windows XP Professional is copied
into memory. This version of Windows XP Professional starts the Setup program.
2. Setup then starts the text mode portion of Setup, which loads storage device drivers
and then prompts you to read and accept a licensing agreement. If you have
a storage device for which Windows XP does not provide drivers, you can press
F6 during the initial setup and supply drivers for your device.
3. Setup prompts you to select the partition on which to install Windows XP Professional,
as shown in Figure 2-4. You can select an existing partition or create a new
partition by using unpartitioned space on the hard disk.