Advanced installation of windows xp
Step 1
Log on to the computer, then insert the windows XP professional disk. You will then have to click on perform additional tasks.
Step 2
You will then have to click browse this disk. Then double click the support folder, double click the tools folder, double click the deploy.CAB, highlight all the files by clicking edit select all. Then right click septpmgr.exe and then click extract. Then click on make new folder so that you create a folder on the C:/drive. Then name this new folder ‘deploy’, click extract to take the files from the CD to C;/Deploy, browse to C;/deploy.
Step 3
Double click on septupmgr .exe
Step 4
The setup manager will show and you will have to click next.
Then create new button should be checked by default and then click next.
You will then have to click on the unattended setup radio button.
Then click on the Windows XP professional radio button and then click next.
You will then have to click the fully automated radio button and then click next to continue.
Click the set up from a CD radio button and then click next.
You will then have to click ‘I agree the terms of the license agreement’, and then click next.
After this I will then have to click name and organization in the list on the left of the screen, then type the name and organization name provided by your instructor and then click next.
Then you will have to click time zone and again this is from the list on the left. Click the time zone for where you are from the drop down box, and then click next.
Highlight product key, on the left again, type the windows XP professional product key supplied by your instructor in the product key and then click next.
Click computer names, also on the list in the left hand corner, I will then have to type the computer name provided by your instructor in the computer name fields and then click the button add. The computer name will then display in the computers to be installed field and then you will have to click next.
After this step you will have to click on administive password also on the list on the left. For this you will have to type your first initial of your first name in the password and confirm password fields.
You will then have to click on workgroup or domain found in the list on the left. Then click the workgroup radio button. Type the workgroup name LabGroup1 in the workgroup field and then click next.
After this step click on additional command also in the list on the left and then click finish.
Then you will type C:\Deplo\unattened.txt in the path and file name field if it is not already showing and then you will have to click ok.
The last step is to click on file and then on exit.
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