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- Prepare the computer to boot to the Windows installation CD
- Power on the the computer
- 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)
- Boot from the CD-ROM drive
- Press a key to boot from the CD (this may be displayed at bottom of screen as soon as the computer begins to boot)
- Proceed to answer the Windows XP installation questions:
- Press Enter to setup up Windows XP now
- Press F8 to agree to the license agreement
- Configure the Windows partition
- Press Enter to set up Windows XP on the selected item (should be called "Unpartitioned space")
- Format the partition using the NTFS file system (Quick)
- Region and Language Options - click Next
- Name: VCL
Organization: Apache.org
- Enter your Windows XP product key
- Computer name: vcl-winxp
Administrator password: choose a password
- Select the timezone
- Networking settings: Typical
- Member of a domain: No, leave default workgroup settings
- Automatic updates: Not right now
- Connect to Internet: Skip
- Register: no
- Enter "root" as the user name (this generates the local root account and automatically adds root to the Administrators group)
<Installation should complete and the root user should automatically log on>
- Set the root account password by executing the following command from a command prompt (the Windows user management GUI can also be used):
net user root <PASSWORD>