W2K installation process
Unfortunately I just had a requirement (need to run an EXE that creates a BIOS update floppy) for a W2K virtual machine. I haven't built one from scratch for over four years. Here's the sequence I used on a VMware Server guest in case I need to do it again in another four years !
Install
- W2K Professional
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W2K SP4 (reboot)
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Install VMware tools (reboot)
- Uninstall Outlook Express
- Uninstall Indexing Service
- IE6 (Windows update is broken in W2K IE5) (reboot)
- Windows Update (Why does it insist on patching Outlook Express even thou I've uninstalled it ?)
- Sun Java JVM
Defrag
Shrink VMDK by 50% (with VMware tools from 3.2G to 1.6G)
Backup (tgz w2k.tgz /vmfs/w2k)
W2K is now ready for action ! Lucky I still have one PC with a floppy disk !