Win2000 Pre-installation checklist...
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My copy of W2K Pro arrives tomorrow. I've backed up all my mail (messages, rules, accounts), DUN entries, and i'll zip my entire win98 dir just incase. I'll be re-installing win98 before I do so (since my current win98 installation is fux0red), because I plan to use both OS's. Does anyone have any useful tips or things for me to bear in mind before installing? (Apart from "don't bother" from John :) ) Simon C++: Only friends can see your private parts. Sonork ID 100.10024
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My copy of W2K Pro arrives tomorrow. I've backed up all my mail (messages, rules, accounts), DUN entries, and i'll zip my entire win98 dir just incase. I'll be re-installing win98 before I do so (since my current win98 installation is fux0red), because I plan to use both OS's. Does anyone have any useful tips or things for me to bear in mind before installing? (Apart from "don't bother" from John :) ) Simon C++: Only friends can see your private parts. Sonork ID 100.10024
I wouldn't be surprised to find that it installs fine the first time. When the Beta 3 version came out I sat on it in terror for a few weeks, remembering all previous Windows installs and the nightmares they caused. But one night I got astoundingly intoxicated and installing it suddenly seemed like a good idea! I fired up the PC, cracked a fresh six-pack (this, too, sounded like a good idea at the time), and began the installation. First it asked a few minor questions that took about five minutes to complete, then it analyzed my hardware and software, providing a report of possible problems. None of them looked serious, so I let it continue. Much to my surprise it told me to go away - it didn't need any further input from me. Not the all night vigil I had come to expect from Windows!!! So I finished the beer that had the current focus and toddled off to my cave. In the morning I was greeted by Ctrl-Alt-Del box offerring to let me log on. I did so without incident - it had preserved all of my settings and preferences, located and kept all of my programs, neatly converted the drives to NTFS without losing data, and repaired a few things that never had worked right on Win95 (sound card, video, etc). Needless to say, I was impressed. Mind you, this was not on a new system - it was a PPro 180MHz machine, with 32MB RAM I think (I don't recall if I upgraded to 64 before or after), and a 2GB Pri HDD Partition. As soon as the release version was available I re-installed, and all has continued smoothly since. Only one thing I've found can kill Win2K, and that's AOL's AIM client. I've installed it three times, and each time it destroyed the system within a few weeks. I've since installed Win2K on two machines at work without problems, other than the fact that it doesn't play nice on a SBS4.5 network. I plan to upgrade all of them as soon as I can get the budget for it. And last month I built a Win2K Server system for myself, also without troubles. Assuming that you buy quality hardware (not the noname, unmarked package, el cheapo kind) I'd expect a nice surprise from this installation:-D I met a young lady who offered her honor. She gave me a lift, then honored her offer. And all the night long I was on her and off her:-O
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My copy of W2K Pro arrives tomorrow. I've backed up all my mail (messages, rules, accounts), DUN entries, and i'll zip my entire win98 dir just incase. I'll be re-installing win98 before I do so (since my current win98 installation is fux0red), because I plan to use both OS's. Does anyone have any useful tips or things for me to bear in mind before installing? (Apart from "don't bother" from John :) ) Simon C++: Only friends can see your private parts. Sonork ID 100.10024
If you have some of the newer video cards, etc. You might want to keep your win 98 disk around to look for drivers in case win2k can't find them. If you have a wixp disk around, I would use that for the drivers (it has most of the drivers I ever needed). I would definitely go with NTSF, and when you set up your admin account. Make sure you don't install any other programs (or do anything for that matter), instead make a new user (only if you don't want to be login-in with the administrator account) and then make the user and admin, then log in with the new user id, then install anything you want. This is so that you don't duplicate all the information and personal settings for both the administrator and the user (you). I like the fact that win2k will keep a different set of folders (my docs, history, etc) for each user, but If I am the only user (and don't want to use the administrator account) I don't want to waste any space. The first time, only install what is really necessary to boot, afterwards (with your user id) go ahead and put in all the extra stuff (iis, other programs, etc). I would also go with an install from scratch (fdisk, then format your hard drive, and then install the os), After this you'll feel like if you just moved into a new house, it takes a little time to get used to it, but boy does it feel good to know that everthing is new and still shiny. Other than that, prepare for a wild ride on a "Real OS". Rodrigo.
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My copy of W2K Pro arrives tomorrow. I've backed up all my mail (messages, rules, accounts), DUN entries, and i'll zip my entire win98 dir just incase. I'll be re-installing win98 before I do so (since my current win98 installation is fux0red), because I plan to use both OS's. Does anyone have any useful tips or things for me to bear in mind before installing? (Apart from "don't bother" from John :) ) Simon C++: Only friends can see your private parts. Sonork ID 100.10024
Before the install - any saved game files. I forgot to backup FFVII, when I was right at the end. :( During the install - Learn from my pain...Make a recovery disk as soon as you log in for the first time, before you load anything else. If it doesn't like a driver, sometimes it's not nice enough to even let you boot in safe mode, I've found. You have to start from scratch, unless you make a recovery disk. Marcus Spitzmiller "Ha ha, Stupid bloropope.." - Homer
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If you have some of the newer video cards, etc. You might want to keep your win 98 disk around to look for drivers in case win2k can't find them. If you have a wixp disk around, I would use that for the drivers (it has most of the drivers I ever needed). I would definitely go with NTSF, and when you set up your admin account. Make sure you don't install any other programs (or do anything for that matter), instead make a new user (only if you don't want to be login-in with the administrator account) and then make the user and admin, then log in with the new user id, then install anything you want. This is so that you don't duplicate all the information and personal settings for both the administrator and the user (you). I like the fact that win2k will keep a different set of folders (my docs, history, etc) for each user, but If I am the only user (and don't want to use the administrator account) I don't want to waste any space. The first time, only install what is really necessary to boot, afterwards (with your user id) go ahead and put in all the extra stuff (iis, other programs, etc). I would also go with an install from scratch (fdisk, then format your hard drive, and then install the os), After this you'll feel like if you just moved into a new house, it takes a little time to get used to it, but boy does it feel good to know that everthing is new and still shiny. Other than that, prepare for a wild ride on a "Real OS". Rodrigo.
rcVu wrote: I would definitely go with NTSF, and when you set up your admin account. Make sure you don't install any other programs (or do anything for that matter), instead make a new user (only if you don't want to be login-in with the administrator account) and then make the user and admin, then log in with the new user id, then install anything you want. This is so that you don't duplicate all the information and personal settings for both the administrator and the user (you). Surely, though, it would be better to use the admin account all the time. I don't want to have to log on and off to add/remove software, change hardware etc. Simon C++: Only friends can see your private parts. Sonork ID 100.10024
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rcVu wrote: I would definitely go with NTSF, and when you set up your admin account. Make sure you don't install any other programs (or do anything for that matter), instead make a new user (only if you don't want to be login-in with the administrator account) and then make the user and admin, then log in with the new user id, then install anything you want. This is so that you don't duplicate all the information and personal settings for both the administrator and the user (you). Surely, though, it would be better to use the admin account all the time. I don't want to have to log on and off to add/remove software, change hardware etc. Simon C++: Only friends can see your private parts. Sonork ID 100.10024
i think he meant: "make yourself part of the Administrator group". So, as user Foo, you can install the program that Foo would use (and you're an admin, so you have full control), and then you have the Admin user account seperate (personally, i've never logged on as Admin except to set up myself as an user in the Admin group).
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i think he meant: "make yourself part of the Administrator group". So, as user Foo, you can install the program that Foo would use (and you're an admin, so you have full control), and then you have the Admin user account seperate (personally, i've never logged on as Admin except to set up myself as an user in the Admin group).
Interesting point, and theoretically true. However, I have a user at work whose machine is using Win2KP. I've set her up as an admin on her machine, but only a domain user on the server. Every time she logs on the Small Business Server Client installation program tries to run, but refuses because she "doesn't have administrator priveleges." When I log in, however, the installation program never tries to run, and I am both a local and domain administrator. Crazy, to say the least. It's just possible that it might work if I elevate her to domain admin status, but she's in Marketing, and easily the most dangerous loon of the lot, lacking any whit of patience, knowledge of what she's doing, or fear of disrupting an entire company. A quandry... but it's functional if a tad irritating for her. I have 100 other users to take care of, so let it stand:-D