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Mount the Installation Media

The Windows installation media needs to be mounted as a drive on the compute node.  The method to do this varies widely based on the provisioning engine being used and resources available.  The following lists some ways to mount the installation media:

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1. Copy the Windows installation ISO file to the management node
2. Determine the IP address or hostname of the IBM Advanced Management Module (AMM) for the BladeCenter chassis which contains the blade you are installing
3. Open a web browser on the management node
4. Navigate to the AMM's address
5. Log in to the AMM
6. Select Inactive session timeout value: no timeout
7. Click Start New Session
8. Click Remote Control
9. Click Start Remote Control
10. Set the Media Tray and KVM dropdown menus to the blade you are installing
11. Click Select Image and click the arrow button to the right of it
12. Navigate to the Windows installation ISO file which was saved to the management node and click Open
13. Click Mount All

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Install Windows

1. Prepare the computer to boot to the Windows installation CD
2. Power on the computer
3. Press the key to display the boot menu as soon as the computer's POST screen is displayed (usually F12 for bare metal or ESC for VMware) 
4. Boot from the CD-ROM drive
5. Press a key to boot from the CD (this may be displayed at bottom of screen as soon as the computer begins to boot)
6. Proceed to answer the Windows XP installation questions:
   1. Press Enter to setup up Windows XP now 
   2. Press F8 to agree to the license agreement 
   3. Configure the Windows partition 
      1. Press Enter to set up Windows XP on the selected item (should be called "Unpartitioned space")
      2. Format the partition using the NTFS file system (Quick)
   4. Region and Language Options - click Next
   5. Name: VCL
      Organization: Apache.org
   6. Enter your Windows XP product key 
   7. Computer name: vcl-winxp
      Administrator password: choose a password
   8. Select the timezone
   9. Networking settings: Typical
   10. Member of a domain: No, leave default workgroup settings
   11. Automatic updates: Not right now
   12. Connect to Internet: Skip
   13. Register: no
   14. Enter "root" as the user name (this generates the local root account and automatically adds root to the Administrators group)

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