Administrator's Guide

40 Restoring Your Operating System
Installing Using the R2 Reinstallation Media
1 Connect a keyboard, monitor, mouse, and any additional peripherals to your system.
2 Turn on your system and any attached peripherals.
Several BIOS windows appear during startup, but do not require any user intervention.
3 Insert the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition With SP2 Disk 1 media into the CD/DVD drive.
4 Press any key to boot from the media.
If a Windows operating system
is not installed on your system, the screen turns black. Next, Windows
Setup
appears in text mode on a blue screen.
5 Immediately press <F6> if you need to install additional device drivers for the boot device or other devices
and perform the following procedure. If you
do not need to install additional device drivers, go to step 6.
a When prompted, press <S> to select and add any additional devices.
b Insert the device driver diskette into the diskette drive and press <Enter>.
A list of device drivers appears.
c Select the appropriate device driver, and press <Enter>.
Windows Setup loads the appropriate drivers on your system.
d Verify that Windows loaded the correct device driver on your system.
e Repeat step a through step d to install any additional device drivers. Otherwise, press <Enter> to
continue.
A message appears stating that Windows Setup is starting Windows.
6 In the Welcome to Setup window, press <Enter> to continue.
7 If you do not have Console Redirection enabled on your system, go to "Running Custom Setup" on
page 42.
If
Console Redirection is enabled on the system, choose one of the following selections:
•
Express Setup — Automatically configures most of your configuration settings, requiring little or
no user intervention.
To run
Express Setup , press <Enter> and go to "Running Custom Setup" on page 42.
•
Custom Setup — Allows you to customize your system name and networking components,
including TCP/IP and your domain name.
To run
Custom Setup , press <C> and go to "Running Custom Setup" on page 42.
Running Express Setup
1 When prompted from the Windows Server 2003 Setup screen, enter the administrator password and
press <Enter>.