Operating System Installation

Operating System Installation

1. document guides you step-by-step through the process of installing the operating systems

   • 1. Windows XP Installation 2. Linux Installation 3. VMWare Installation

2. Windows XP Installation guidelines:

   • Creating Boot Disks
     • Booting from the CD-ROM
       • Defining Drive Partitions
         • Formatting Drive Partitions
           • Customizing Your System
             • Customizing Network Settings
               • Installing Service Pack 2

3. Linux Installation

   • into your CD-ROM drive
     • type linux text at the boot
       • The “Welcome’ screen appears. Press Enter
         • The ‘Disk Partitioning Setup’ screen appears
           • The ‘Partitioning’ screen appears. Press the Tab key until New is highlighted,
             • ‘Network Configuration for eth0’ screen appears. Press the Spacebar to remove the * (asterisk) in the following [ ] Use bootp/dhcp option
               • • IP address: 192.168.1.50 • Netmask: 255.255.255.0 • Default gateway (IP): 192.168.1.2 • Primary nameserver: 192.168.1.4
           • Note that the values used to partition the hard drive may need to be altered based on the memory and hard drive size of the system that you are using.

4. VMWare Installation

   • Install VMWare
     • Download the Knoppix ISO image file and burn to CD
       • http://www.knoppix-std.org/
       • Pre-requisites to running VMWare
         • a. Pentium 4, 2GHz and above b. At least 1Gig of RAM
         • circled icon “New Virtual Machine
           • Before power on the virtual machine can be powered on, one final configuration is required to make sure that the virtual machine catches the CDROM. Normally the ‘auto detect’ should work but to be sure that the virtual machine binds with the appropriate drive (especially with multi-drive machines), we are going to force a binding to a specified drive.
             • Press F2 key
               • to release the VM control of the keyboard, press ALT-CTRL at the same time.
                 • Press the right arrow  key to highlight the EXIT tab Select the item ‘Exit Saving Changes
                   • Knoppix boot screen and finally the X-Windows screen.