1: Installing a Client Operating System

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Attended Installation
3. Setup Program (Text Mode)
4. Setup Wizard (Graphical Mode)
5. Install Windows Networking
6. Post Installation
7. Installing over a network
8. Unattended Installation
   1. Creating UDF Files
   2. Processing UDF Files
   3. Remote Installation Services (RIS)
   4. Setting up a RIS Server
   5. Creating a RIPrep Image
   6. RIPrep vs. CD
   7. Troubleshooting Remote Installations
   8. Sysprep
   9. Sysprep Switches
   10. Installing from a Disk Image
   11. Unattended Installation SAQs
9. Upgrades
10. Post-Installation Updates
11. Troubleshooting Failed Installations
12. Troubleshooting SAQs

Unattended Installation SAQs

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Creating a Disk Image How should you create a disk image for use in unattended installations of Windows XP Professional? a) Use sysprep.exe. b) Use riprep.exe. c) Use diskprep.exe. d) Use third-party disk imaging software. Please select an answerIncorrect. Sysprep is used to prepare a sample computer for cloning.Incorrect. Riprep is used to create images for use on Remote Installation Servers.Incorrect. Diskprep is a Unix utility.Correct. You should use third-party disk-imaging software.

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Reinstalling OS and Applications You want to enable your technicians to reinstall their Windows XP Professional desktop systems quickly in case they are corrupted. They need to be able to boot their system without any floppy disk. The installation needs to include a group of applications. How can you accomplish this? a) Save the contents of the i386 folder from the Windows XP Professional CD to the network and give the technicians permission to use the winnt32 command. b) Install a RIS server, which contains the CD-based image for Windows XP Professional. c) Create a Riprep image. d) Create a Sysprep image. Please select an answerIncorrect. The i386 folder from the CD will not give the application requirements in the image, nor the ability to boot without a floppy, if the existing OS is corrupt. Incorrect. A CD-based image through RIS will not include the required applications.Correct. Riprep enables not only the core OS to be imaged, but also the applications that are currently installed. The image is stored on the RIS server and is made available to clients that have a PXE boot ROM NIC or can support a PXE boot ROM floppy disk.Incorrect. Sysprep cannot produce an image that will work without some form of third-party client, which would require an OS running or a boot disk.

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