Installation guide

12DREA CR 2001-107
IV. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
1. WINDOWS NT CONFIGURATION
1.1 Installing Service Packs
At the request of a user, we upgraded the Windows NT system with Service Pack 4 and the
associated Year 2000 Service Pack. The Service Pack files had been downloaded into the
folder c:\Service Pack4.
Instructions regarding the installation of Service Pack 4 were in the file Readme.txt in the
c:\Service Pack4\I386 directory. The installation was performed by executing the following
commands:
C:
cd \Service Pack4\I386\Update
Update
We requested the uninstall feature of the Service Pack. A message box appeared later
indicating that a manufacturer's driver AICXXX.SYS had been installed, and asking if we
wanted to overwrite it with the driver from the Service Pack. We answered "No".
The subsequent installation of the Year 2000 Service Pack was done by executing these
commands:
C:
cd \Service Pack4\I386\Update
Y2ksetup
A message box appeared indicating that a file was missing. This might have been related to
the fact that Internet Explorer had not been installed on the computer.
1.2 Modification of User Accounts
Initially, the computer had only two user accounts, "administrator" and "Collison". Collison
had administrator privileges, and had no default home directory. All files could be accessed
by anyone.
Some changes were made to improve system security. All "normal" users were assigned a
default home directory, namely H:\users\username. Since this was an NTFS partition, each
user could set file permissions for their files. Collison was removed from the administrator
group; anyone wishing to make system changes must now log in as "administrator".