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| shimmy 2002-10-25, 11:23 pm |
| I am currently taking the MCSA track and want to install
the evaluation software on my home pc for studying and
such. My pc now has win2kpro on it. I am thinking of
installing advanced server on a different partition of
the harddrive and using it as a domain controller in my
home.
Here are my questions; if I put it on a different
partition that my existing os, will advanced server become
my current (boot-up) os? If I just upgrade my 2kpro to 2k
advanced server, will I have to reinstall pro after the
120 days run out and advanced server expires or will it
automatically go back to 2kpro? Should I just do it as a
duel boot. If I do duel boot, will I be able to use the
advanced server for domain controller?
I have more questions but this should get me started.
thanks in advance
shimmy
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| tech274 2002-10-28, 7:14 pm |
| I've dual booted 2K and 2Kserver.
Works out ok.
I have read of problems when the 120 days expires, so I have timed it so it does not run out.
There is no upgrade path from win2k to server.I just boot on floppy and install from there .
People often run parallel installations just to access the NTFS partion, in case of disaster.
As part of your learning experience, I would back up all data and go for it, that,s the best way to learn.
At first I was afraid of "messing things up", but, the only reason I have my equipment is to learn.I have screwed up and reinstalled DHCP, WINS, DNS etc, many times, and I learned alot from it.
Check out the boot.ini , where you can learn to modify it to boot what you want, when you want.
So back up your data, make a 9.x boot disk w/cd and learn.
Good luck | |
| BC Berry 2002-10-28, 11:23 pm |
| On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:33:14 -0700, "shimmy" <shimmy870@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I am currently taking the MCSA track and want to install
>the evaluation software on my home pc for studying and
>such. My pc now has win2kpro on it. I am thinking of
>installing advanced server on a different partition of
>the harddrive and using it as a domain controller in my
>home.
I'm doing the same thing with MCSE. have a home lab with two PC's. One has
WINME, 2000Pro, and 2000advanced server on it. The other has 2000pro and
2000advanced server (my domain controller) on it.
>Here are my questions; if I put it on a different
>partition that my existing os, will advanced server become
>my current (boot-up) os?
With WIN2000, when you install the second OS on the PC, you will have a menu
come up at boot time to allow you to select which OS to boot. If you have the
disk space, DO use separate partitions for each OS. It sure makes things
easier when something expires or gets hosed and you have to reload one of the
OS's.
> If I just upgrade my 2kpro to 2k
>advanced server, will I have to reinstall pro after the
>120 days run out and advanced server expires or will it
>automatically go back to 2kpro?
You can't upgrade pro to advanced server. You can install both pro and
advanced server on the same computer but they remain essentially independent
of each other. One OS expiring will not affect the other. If I remember right,
an expired OS will boot and run but will shut itself down after a few minutes
or so - some relatively inconvenient period of time anyway.
>Should I just do it as a duel boot.
Two OS's on the same computer imply a dual boot. With WIN2K, installing the
second OS willI automatically set up the dual boot and the menu to select
which OS to boot.
>If I do duel boot, will I be able to use the
>advanced server for domain controller?
Yes. Realizing obviously that only one OS can be booted on a PC at a time.
Just make sure the computer name and IP address are unique in each different
OS on the PC. I made that mistake once and got my domain controller all
confused.
> I have more questions but this should get me started.
> thanks in advance
> shimmy
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| Daniela Jablonowski 2002-11-16, 11:23 am |
| Hi,
I'm making my MCSE certification at the moment, and I'm a little bit
confused on your question.
If you want to use your dual boot pc with Win2k Pro and Advanced Server on
it, you new also a second pc to work in a domain, because you the server up
and running and also another machine, otherwise you cannot really experience
the features of domains and especially Active Directory.
Greetings
"shimmy" <shimmy870@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I am currently taking the MCSA track and want to install
> the evaluation software on my home pc for studying and
> such. My pc now has win2kpro on it. I am thinking of
> installing advanced server on a different partition of
> the harddrive and using it as a domain controller in my
> home.
> Here are my questions; if I put it on a different
> partition that my existing os, will advanced server become
> my current (boot-up) os? If I just upgrade my 2kpro to 2k
> advanced server, will I have to reinstall pro after the
> 120 days run out and advanced server expires or will it
> automatically go back to 2kpro? Should I just do it as a
> duel boot. If I do duel boot, will I be able to use the
> advanced server for domain controller?
> I have more questions but this should get me started.
> thanks in advance
> shimmy
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