Chapter 4

Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Small Business Server 2000

5.Press C to continue Setup at the "Setup has determined that your computer's startup hard disk is new…" screen.

6.Press F8 to accept the licensing agreement.

7.At the drives partitioning screen, select the target drive. If you want to use the entire drive to install Windows 2000 then press Enter. Otherwise, press C to create a drive a partition.

In this example we will create a 2GB partition. Please note that Windows 2000 does not have the 2GB limitation present on NT 4.0.

a.Press C to create a partition.

b.At the "Create partition size" prompt, type 2048 and press Enter.

c.HP recommends that you create all the partitions needed for each hard drive present on your system. Select unpartitioned space and press C again to create additional partitions.

8.Select the target drive to be used to install Windows 2000. Press Enter.

9.Select "Format the partition using the NTFS file system" and press Enter.

10.The installer will format and copy files to the hard drive.

11.The system will reboot and launch Windows 2000 graphic interface. Be sure to remove the driver diskette before the reboot.

12.At the "Installation Wizard" first dialog box, click Next to continue.

13.The "Installing Devices" screen will be shown with a progress bar on the display. This may take 10 to 15 minutes.

14.You can now proceed through the customization of your installation using the graphical interface.

NOTE

The network settings may need to be customized to your

 

environment. Please refer to Microsoft 2000 manuals should

 

you need further details on the networking settings.

 

 

15.The "Installing Components Display" screen starts with a progress bar. It takes about 20 minutes to complete this section.

16.The wizard will then automatically start the "Performing Final Tasks" section to complete the installation. This step may takes a long time too, with the progress bar apparently not moving.

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Server tc2110 specifications

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