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Installing Windows 7 Pro
Making a disk image is also useful if you don't have a Win 7 installation DVD, and the drivers of the machine
Prerequisites
- A machine with a pre-installed Win 7 that has never been booted
- … or a Win 7 installation DVD, a licence number
- if possible, a DVD with the specific drivers of the machine
Basic installation steps
Switch on the machine! If the machine did not have a pre-installed Windows 7, make sure that there is Windows 7 DVD in the the reader.
- Choose France (or whatever is most appropriate) for the different localization settings. Warning, it will not be possible to change the language after that
- User name: your LSCE login
Computer name: <login>-Dell or <login>-HP (or anything) - Password: anything you can remember
- License agreement: accept it…
- Security setting: only install important updates
- Time zone, etc…: choose the appropriate settings
- Wait, wait, wait (the computer may reboot)
- Done!!!
Changing the partitions
Use gparted to change the default partitions of the disk
Getting a network address
- Determine the MAC address of the PC
- Start Menu → “type 'cmd' then press Enter in the Search field”
- Type “getmac” in the Command Prompt window and write down the MAC address
- Type “exit” to close the Command Prompt window
- Ask the LSCE sysadmins to add the MAC address to the DHCP, and get a static IP address for the PC
Dell Digital Delivery
The first time a new Dell computer is put on the network, it will start the Dell Digital Delivery program. Accept the options and download the extra software (Download “My Dell - Help, Support and Updates” but you probably don't need “Dell Data Protection Security Tools”).
Installing the drivers
If the machine did not have a pre-installed Windows 7, you will have to install additional Dell or HP (or whatever) drivers…
Updating Windows
Configuring the update
Control panel ⇒
Manually starting the update
Removing some pre-installed applications
Some machines with a pre-installed Windows system, may have some pre-installed applications that need to be uninstalled:
- MacAfee: this antivirus must be removed before the installation of Symantec Endpoint Protection
- DEMO version of Microsoft Office: remove this before installing Office 2010 supplied by CEA
- …
Getting the LSCE standard Win 7 installation
Ask the LSCE sysadmins to make the standard installation
- Giving the machine its final name (
LSCEnnnn, where nnnn are the last 4 digits of the static IP address) - Configuration of the local LSCE time server
- Kerberos configuration
- Symantec Endpoint Protection
- OCS inventory
- FortiClient
- cygwin/X
- LSCE printers
- Winzip or 7zip
- Acrobat
- Acrobat Reader
- Microsoft Office Professionnel Plus 2010
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- Putty
- WinSCP
- java
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