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Local Installation

It’s possible that you’ll need to install Windows 7 from the installation media at some

point. You’ll learn about Lite Touch Installation (LTI) and Zero Touch Installation (ZTI)

in Chapter 2, “Automating the Deployment of Windows 7,” but you may occasionally need

to do a “heavy touch” installation. No, there’s no acronym for heavy touch installation,

mostly because you don’t want to be doing it that often.

Installing one or two systems manually is no big deal, but if you have to install 5, 50, or

more, you’ll want to automate the process. For the most part, the installation of Windows

7 is straightforward with few surprises. The biggest challenge may come if you have to

change partitions on the hard disk or add additional disk drivers.

Exercise 1.1 will walk you through the steps needed to install Windows 7 from the

installation DVD.

EXERCISE 1.1

Installing Windows 7 from the Installation DVD

1. Place the Windows 7 installation DVD in the DVD drive and boot the system. After a

moment, the Install Windows screen will appear, as shown in the following graphic.

Although it looks like you have minimal choices here, you can press Shift+F10 to

access the command line from this menu. In the “Creating a Bootable VHD” exercise

later in this chapter, you’ll access the command line to create and conﬁgure a VHD ﬁle.

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