VERIFY YOUR HARDWARE IN THE WINDOWS CATALOG
2-13Lesson 2 Installing Windows XP Professional from a CD-ROM
not support booting from CD, you can create a set of floppy disks that will start the
computer and then initiate setup from the CD. After the installation has started, this
method proceeds just like booting from CD.
See Also Microsoft makes the tools for creating boot floppy disks for Windows XP
Professional Edition and Windows XP Home Edition available for download. Visit http://
https://traloihay.net and search by using the keywords Windows XP boot floppy tolocate these utilities.
If a computer is already running a previous version of Windows, you can simply insert
the Windows XP installation CD and use a setup wizard to begin the installation. Setup
gives you the choice of upgrading the existing operating system or performing a clean
installation.
Figure 2-3 shows the six steps involved in the text mode stage of Setup.
Boot1Load Setup program into memory2Start text-based Setup program3Create the Windows XP Professional partition4Format the Windows XP Professional partition5Copy setup files to the hard disk6Restart the computerSetup WizardF02us03
Figure 2-3