LAB ASSIGNMENT 2 - Installing Windows 2000
Materials
Required:
·
Computer
·
Windows 2000 CD (and product key)
·
Internet access
Activity
1. Boot your
computer with the Windows 2000 CD. The first part of the installation is
text-based.
2. The Win2K installation program inspects your computer’s hardware
configuration and begins loading the Windows 2000 drivers. The system also
prompts you to press the F6 key if you have SCSI or RAID devices in the
computer for which you have to install a third party driver. Otherwise, the
program automatically detects the storage devices and proceeds with the
installation.
3. After installing the mass storage drivers, the installation program
displays the Welcome to Setup screen, which enables you to repair an existing
Windows 2000 Server installation (press R), exit the setup program (press F3),
or proceed with the setup process (press Enter).
4. The installation program then displays the Windows 2000 end-user license
agreement. Press the Page Down key to scroll through the entire document, and
then press the F8 key to agree to its terms.
5. In the next part of the installation process, the setup program scans the
hard drives in the system and displays a list of the partitions it finds there
and they file systems they use. Use the arrow keys to select the partition on
which you want to install Windows 2000 Server and press Enter to continue.
While at the partition selection screen, if your computer has unpartitioned
space on one of its hard drives, you can also create a new partition for
Windows 2000 Server. Do this by highlighting the entry in the list representing
the unpartitioned space and pressing the C key.
6. If you select a partition that already has an operating system installed
on it, the setup program informs you that installing a second operating system
(even in another directory) may cause problems. Press the C key to confirm that
you want to use the selected partition, or press the Escape key to return to
the partition list to make another selection.
7. If you don’t want to format the selected partition, and it currently uses
the FAT file system, the setup program gives you the option to convert it from
FAT to NTFS. Use the arrow keys to select Convert the Partition to NTFS and
press the Enter key. This leaves the files and directories stored on the
partition. It’s also possible to convert a partition to NTFS after the
installation process is completed, by running the Convert.exe utility from the
Windows 2000 command prompt.
8. At this point, the installation program begins copying system files to
the partition you selected, installing them into a system directory called
\WINNT by default, unless that directory already exists. If the directory does
exist, the program prompts you to either confirm the use of the default
directory name or supply a different name.
9. When the program finishes copying the system files to their permanent
locations, it prompts you to either reboot the system by pressing the Enter key
or wait for the system to reboot automatically. This concludes the text mode
phase of the installation.
10. When the system first boots into the graphics mode,
the installation program displays a Welcome to the Windows 2000 Setup Wizard
page. Click the Next button to begin the
installation process, or simply do nothing and the wizard will eventually
proceed by itself.
11. The first thing the wizard does after welcoming you is perform an
extensive auto-detection sequence of the hardware in your computer. This
process can take several minutes and cause your screen to blink.
12. When the hardware detection sequence is finished, the installation
program displays the Regional Settings page.
13. In the next part of the Windows 2000 installation process, the setup
program displays a Personalize Your Software page, on which you specify information
about yourself and your organization.
14. On the Your Product Key page, enter the 25-character product key supplied
with your Windows 2000 Server CD-ROM. Click the Next button to continue.
15. On the Licensing Modes page, you specify whether you want license client
on a per server or per seat basis. Specify the number
of concurrent connections for which you have purchased licenses.
16. Enter a valid NetBIOS name (no more than 15 characters long, and that
contains no spaces or punctuation other than hyphens) in the
Computer Name field on the Computer Name and Administrator Password page. The
name you select must be unique on the network.
17. Enter a password for the Administrator account that the installation
program automatically creates on the new server, and confirm it in the field
provided.
18. On the Windows 2000 Components screen, the installation program displays
the various components included with Windows 2000 Server, arranged in
categories, such as Accessories and Utilities. Each category has a checkbox
next to it. An empty checkbox indicates that none of the components in the
category are selected, a filled checkbox with a white
background indicates that all of the components in that category are selected,
and a filled gray box indicates that some of the components are selected.
19. Windows 2000 includes a variety of network services that you can add to
the system during the operating system installation process. Some of these
services are needed by the other workstations on a Windows network, but you
don’t have to install them on every Windows 2000 server. Others are more
esoteric, and you only have to install them in specific situations.
20. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a service included with
Windows 2000 Server that automatically configures TCP/IP systems with the IP
addresses and other settings they need to operate. This eliminates the need to
manually configure each workstation and to maintain records of the IP addresses
assigned to the systems on the network. After installing the service, you use
the DHCP console to specify the IP addresses and other parameters that you want
to assign.
21. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a service that resolves IP addresses into
their host names. When you connect to a site on the Internet with a Web
browser, for example, the browser first contacts a DNS server to resolve the
server name in the URL you specified into an IP address. DNS is also an
integral component of Active Directory. Windows 2000 Server includes a DNS
service, but many networks use the DNS servers supplied by their ISPs. After
installation, you use the DNS console to configure the service.
22. The Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) performs the same function for
NetBIOS names that the DNS does for host names. When a pre-Windows 2000
computer attempts to communicate with another system on the Windows network, it
sends the system’s NetBIOS name to a WINS server, which responds with the
system’s IP address. WINS can work together with DHCP by automatically
registering the names of workstations as the DHCP server assigns IP addresses
to them. You configure WINS using the WINS console.
23. The final phase of the Widows 2000 installation process begins with the
setup program installing the default networking components,
including the driver for the network interface card the program has
detected, the Client for Microsoft Networks, and the TCP/IP protocols.
24. If you select the Custom option, the Networking Components page appears,
containing the same default components as the typical configuration. You can
use this page to remove the default components, install other components, or
configure any of the components in the list.
25. Windows 2000 installs the TCP/IP protocols by default, and configures
them to use DHCP to request an IP address and other configuration settings. If
you don’t have a DHCP server on your network, or if you just want to configure
the TCP/IP protocols manually, open the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties
dialog box by highlighting the protocol on the Networking Components page and
clicking the Properties button.
26. In the Workgroup or Computer Domain page, the wizard prompts you to
specify whether or not you want to join an existing domain on the network or
create a workgroup. If this is the first server on your network and you plan to
create a domain later, or if you don’t want to use a domain at all, select the
No radio button on this page and specify the name of a workgroup in the
Workgroup or Computer Domain field. You must create a workgroup, even if it’s a
workgroup containing one machine.
27. At this point, the setup installs the final components that Windows 2000
needs to operate, creates Start menu items, registers the components, saves
configurations settings, and deletes the temporary files created on your hard
drive. The installation is now completed and the system reboots.
