Step 7 - You will be presented with the End User Licensing Agreement. Press F8 to accept and continue

Step 8 - This step is very important. Here we will create the partition where Windows will be installed. If you have a brand new unformatted drive you will get a screen similar to below. In our case the drive size is 8190MB. We can choose to install Windows in this drive without creating a partition, hence use the entire size of the drive. If you wish to do this you can just press enter and Windows will automatically partition and format the drive as one large drive.

However for this demonstration I will create two partition. The first partition will be 6000MB (C: drive) and second partition would be 2180MB (E: drive). By creating two partition we can have one which stores Windows and Applications and the other which stores our data. So in the future if anything goes wrong with our Windows install such as virus or spyware we can re-install Windows on C: drive and our data on E: drive will not be touched. Please note you can choose whatever size partition your like. For example if you have 500GB hard drive you can have two partition of 250GB each.

Press C to create a partition.

Step 8 - Windows will show the total size of the hard drive and ask you how much you want to allocate for the partition you are about to create. I will choose 6000MB. You will then get the screen below. Notice it shows C: Partition 1 followed by the size 6000 MB. This indicates the partition has been created. We still have an unpartitioned space of 2189MB. Next heighlight the unpartitioned space by pressing down the arrow key. Then press C to create another partition. You will see the total space available for the new partition. Just choose all the space left over, in our case 2180MB.

Step 9 - Now you will see both partition listed. Partition 1 (C: Drive) 6000MB and Partition 2 (E: Drive) 2180MB. You will also have 8MB of unpartitioned space. Don't worry about that. Just leave it how its is. Windows normally has some unpartitioned space. You might wonder what happened to D: drive. Windows has automatically allocated D: drive to CD/DVD-ROM.

Select Partition 1 (C: Drive) and press Enter.

Step 10 - Choose format the partition using NTFS file system.This is the recommended file system. If the hard drive has been formatted before then you can choose quick NTFS format. We chose NTFS because it offers many security features, supports larger drive size, and bigger size files.

Windows will now start formatting drive C: and start copying setup files as shown on the two images below :

Install Windows XP (Part 1)

This procedure demonstrates how to install Windows XP Professional. The procedure to install Windows XP home edition is very similar to the professional edition. Since Windows XP Pro is more advanced operating system, it will be used to demonstrate the installation procedure.

The best way install Windows XP is to do a clean install. It is not difficult to perform a clean installation. Before you perform the installation I recommend that you check Windows XP Compatibility List to ensure that your hardware is supported by XP. If your hardware is not on the compatibility list you can check your hardware manufactures website to download the drivers for Windows XP. Save all the necessary drivers onto floppy disks or CD before you start the installation.

All versions of Windows XP CD are bootable. In order to boot from CD/DVD-ROM you need to set the boot sequence. Look for the boot sequence under your BIOS setup and make sure that the first boot device is set to CD/DVD-ROM. You can then perform the following steps to install Windows XP:

Step 1 - Start your PC and place your Windows XP CD in your CD/DVD-ROM drive. Your PC should automatically detect the CD and you will get a message saying "Press any key to boot from CD". Soon as computer starts booting from the CD your will get the following screen:

Step 2 - At this stage it will ask you to press F6 if you want to install a third party Raid or SCSI driver. If you are using a an IDE Hard Drive then you do not need to press F6. If you are using a SCSI or SATA Hard drive then you must press F6 otherwise Windows will not detect your Hard Drive during the installation. Please make sure you have the Raid drivers on a floppy disk. Normally the drivers are supplied on a CD which you can copy to a floppy disk ready to be installed. If you are not sure how to do this then please read your motherboard manuals for more information.

Step 3 - Press S to Specify that you want to install additional device.

Step 4 - You will be asked to insert the floppy disk with the Raid or SCSI drivers. Press enter after you have inserted the disk.

Step 5 - You will see a list of Raid drivers for your HDD. Select the correct driver for your device and press enter.

Step 6 - You will then get a Windows XP Professional Setup screen. You have the option to do a new Windows install, Repair previous install or quit. Since we are doing a new install we just press Enter to continue.

Microsoft DOS History

Internet History

Reference Issue / Question CH001016 Who invented the Internet? Year Event 1961 Leonard Kleinrock publishes his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" is published May 31, 1961. 1962 Leonard Kleinrock releases his paper talking about packetization. 1962 Paul Baran suggests transmission of data using fixed size message blocks. 1962 J.C.R. Licklider becomes the first Director of IPTO and gives his vision of a galactic network. 1964 Baran publishes reports "On Distributed Communications." 1964 Leonard Kleinrock publishes his first book on packet nets entitled Communication Nets: Stochastic Message Flow and Design. 1965 Lawrence G. Roberts with MIT performs the first long distant dial-up connection between a TX-2 computer in Massachusetts and Tom Marill with a Q-32 at SDC in California. 1965 Donald Davies coins the word "Packet." 1966 Lawrence G. Roberts and Tom Marill publish a paper about their earlier success at connecting over dial-up. 1966 Robert Taylor joins ARPA and brings Larry Roberts there to develop ARPANET. 1967 Donald Davies creates 1-node NPL packet net. 1967 Wes Clark suggests use of a minicomputer for network packet switch. 1968 Doug Englebart publicly demonstrates Hypertext on December 9, 1968. 1968 The first Network Working Group (NWG) meeting is held. 1968 Larry Roberts publishes ARPANET program plan on June 3, 1968. 1968 First RFP for a network goes out. 1968 UCLA is selected to be the first node on the Internet as we know it today and serve as the Network Msmnt Center. 1969 Steve Crocker releases RFC #1 on April 7, 1979 introducing the Host-to-Host and talking about the IMP software. 1969 UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969. 1969 On August 29, 1969 the first network switch and the first piece of network equipment (called "IMP", which is short for Interface Message Processor) is sent to UCLA. 1969 On September 2, 1969 the first data moves from UCLA host to the IMP switch. 1969 CompuServe, the first commercial online service, is established. 1970 Steve Crocker and UCLA team releases NCP. 1972 Ray Tomlinson introduces network e-mail, the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users. 1972 First public demo of ARPANET. 1972 Norm Abramson' Alohanet connected to ARPANET: packet radio nets. 1973 Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn design TCP during 1973 and later publish it with the help of Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine in December of 1974 in RFC 675. 1973 ARPA deploys SATNET the first international connection. 1973 Robert Metcalfe creates the Ethernet at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). 1973 The first VoIP call is made. 1978 TCP splits into TCP/IP driven by Danny Cohen, David Reed, and John Shoch to support real-time traffic. This allows the creation of UDP. 1978 John Shoch and Jon Hupp at Xerox PARC develop the first worm. 1981 BITNET is founded. 1983 ARPANET standardizes TCP/IP. 1984 Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel introduce DNS. 1986 Eric Thomas develops the first Listserv. 1986 NSFNET is created. 1986 BITNET II is created. 1988 First T-1 backbone is added to ARPANET. 1988 Bitnet and CSNET merge to create CREN. 1990 ARPANET replaced by NSFNET. 1990 The first search engine Archie, written by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Mike Parker at McGill University in Montreal Canada is released on September 10, 1990 1991 Tim Berners-Lee introduces WWW to the public on August 6, 1991. 1991 NSF opens the Internet to commercial use. 1992 Internet Society formed. 1992 NSFNET upgraded to T-3 backbone. 1993 The NCSA releases the Mosaic browser. 1995 The dot-com boom starts. 1995 The first VoIP software (Vocaltec) is released allowing end users to make voice calls over the Internet. 1996 Telecom Act deregulates data networks. 1996 More e-mail is sent than postal mail in USA. 1996 CREN ended its support and since then the network has cease to exist. 1997 Internet2 consortium is established. 1997 IEEE releases 802.11 (WiFi) standard. 1998 Internet weblogs begin to appear. 1999 Napster starts sharing files in September of 1999. 2000 The dot-com bubble starts to burst. 2003 January 7, 2003 CREN's members decided to dissolve the organization.