Operating System Installation Guidelines

The document is divided into 3 parts:

• Windows XP Installation
• Linux Installation
• VMWare Installation

Option 1:

If you are going to use a bootable for the Linux portion, you only need to install Windows XP and follow section 1. For Windows XP you want to perform a full default install of all components. It is critical that you use Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition will NOT work. You also want to make sure that Service Pack 2 isinstalled.

Option2:

If you are going to for Linux follow steps 1 and 3. For Windows XP you want to perform a full default install of all components. It is critical that you use Windows XP Professional as Windows XP Home Edition will NOT work. You also want to make sure that Service Pack 2 is installed

Option3:

If you are going to VMW are for Linux follow steps 1 and 3. For Windows XP you want to perform a full default install of all components. It is critical that you use Windows XP Professional as Windows XP Home Edition will NOT work. You also want to make sure that Service Pack 2 is installed

It is important to understand that this guide was specifically designed for a lab environment. There are a lot of operating system vulnerabilities that are intentionally left un patched in these installation steps. This is intentionally done to give you the best results when completing the labs and tutorials in this book. If you are interested, a great reference for building a Windows XP Professional box that is secure enough for a production environment is Windows XP Security: Step By Step by SANS.

To create a properly configured laptop for the Security Essentials Boot Camp, follow the detailed steps in this document—from the initial setup screen to the final login. This guide was designed for use on a system that doesn't already have a Windows platform installed on it. If your machine does not have a blank hard drive, some of the screens you see at the beginning of the installation may be different from what you see in this chapter. If different screens appear, it is important that you always choose the option to replace, or overwrite. Do not choose to upgrade. The Windows install should also be placed in the default C:\windows directory.

• Label four blank, formatted, 3.5-inch, 1.44-MB floppy disks as: Setup Disk One, Setup Disk Two, Setup Disk Three, and Setup Disk Four.
• Insert Setup Disk One into the floppy disk drive of a Windows or DOS system.
• Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
• Click Start, and then click Run.
• In the Open box, type D:\bootdisk\makeboot a: (where D: is the drive letter assigned to your CD-ROMdrive), and then click OK.
• Follow the screen prompts.
• After you have completed the screen prompt requests, insert Setup Disk One into the floppy disk drive of the lab PC and power the PC on.

If your system supports booting off of the CD-ROM, you do not need to use the disks previously discussed. Instead, follow these steps:

1. Simply start by placing the Windows XP CD-ROM into your CD tray and power on your machine. The first non-blank screen you should see is the one shown in the following illustration.
2. If the previous screen does not appear, reboot your machine and open up the BIOS. You need to make the system boot to the CD-ROM first. The following screen is one of several different BIOSes you could have on your system. You need to navigate to a screen that allows you to change the Boot Order. This is where you tell it to boot off of the CD-ROM.
3. Now your system should boot off of the CD-ROM. After a period of time (typically 30-45 seconds), the following screen appears. Because we are doing an initial install, you only need to press Enter to continue.
4. Hit Enter at the next screen to continue installation.
5. The Microsoft Windows XP Licensing Agreement appears next, as shown in the following screen. It is important that you read and understand this agreement before continuing with the installation. After you have read and agreed to the contents of the license, press F8 to continue.