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And we’re off…

booting from the DVD (or ISO file in this case) Windows is loading files:

Starting windows – this looks like the same boot screen as windows 7:

Lets get started, next:

There's release notes and system requirements if you click the what to know button:

Not many options, click install. You can restore / repair here if you needed too:

Whoa lots of options here:

Detailed explanations of each edition here, but it comes down to a cost issue and your needs. Note here that 32 bit is no longer availble  as of 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/editions-overview.aspx

We’re going with Enterprise edition for this build.

License terms:

We’re doing a clean build here but upgrading is an option albeit one I don’t recommend in most cases, select advanced:

This is where you can setup your partitions and drives. For this build we’re just going to go ahead and setup on our IDE disk.

You should see how fast the “copying files” step goes by when your installing from an ISO file:

All done:

You must set a password. There is no default password.

Clean install and we have about a gig of RAM free:

That ends this section, we’ll move onto configuration and more next time.