Software Installation Sequence for Workstation:

1. Install Windows 2000 Professional with SP3 integrated. Make an NTFS partition of 2048 MB for the system. It helps to create another partition on the rest of the disk: in this case CD drive will become E: disk, and D: will be reserved for the second HD partition. If installing over an existing system - make sure that you have at least 700MB free space on C:, or even better just delete and recreate the partition. Make sure that there are no system files (like boot.ini, ntdetect.com, ntldr, etc.) otherwise Windows might decide to boot from this disk (very bizarre!). During installation configure settings for the TCP/IP protocol and add computer to the domain.
2. Log in as a local Administrator.
   • Adjust monitor settings
   • Format D: disk with NTFS.
   • Create C:\TEMP and D:\TEMP directories.
   • Set system variables TMP and TEMP to point to the D:\TEMP directory
   • Change swap file size if necessary, e.g. for a 512MB of memory the system will create a >700MB swap which is ridiculous. Use 200MB(min)/400MB(max) setting in this case.
   • Check IDE controllers in the device manager. Make sure that "DMA mode if available" is on.
3. Install recovery console from the CD using E:\I386\Winnt32.exe /cmdcons
4. Install support tools from the CD using E:\Support\tools\setup.exe
5. Log in as a root.
6. Apply registry patches located in the root's home dir: file://///Mccoy/KML_root/users/root/Registry
   • Netscape_dflt_usr.reg   - Netscape default user settings
   • OpenCMD_window_dir.reg - CMD window on the context menu - optional
   • ProgramFiles_D.reg  - this will change default installation disk to D:
   • DisableOfflineFiles.reg - does not allow caching.
7. Stop and disable following services:
   • Automatic updates.
   • Background Intelligent Transfer.
   • DHCP client.
   • DNS client. It is complete junk and causes a lot of problems - lost network neighborhood, unavailable roaming profiles, etc.
   • Messenger - it appears that it has no authentication, so anyone can send a message to a computer/user when this service is running.
8. Rename local administrator and rename his local profile dir: <C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>.  Make sure that the local Guest account is disabled.
9. Create shares: ComputerName_D, ComputerName_F, ...
   • Check security settings and remove "Everyone" from the allowed users. Set permission as follows: Domain Admins, MillerLab - full control, Domain Users - change.
   • Make sure that the property <Allow caching of files in this shared folder> is unchecked on all shares. Use <Caching> button on the <Sharing> page.
10. Internet Explorer 6.0 from file://///Mccoy/KML_root/Install/IE6 using ie6setup.exe. Computer will reboot. At this point we are done with the system installation. Other installs are more or less computer-specific.
11. Interbase client ver 6.01 from file://///Mccoy/KML_root/Install/PC_soft/LabSetup/Interbase/CurrentSetup/Client/Ver6.01
    install only the client into the default dir: D:\Program Files\Borland\InterBase
12. Intersolv ODBC drivers for Interbase from file://///Mccoy/KML_root/LabSetup/PC_soft/System/Interbase/CurrentSetup/Client/Ver5.6/  
    Make sure to select ODBC drivers ONLY!!!  Install to dir: D:\SystemProgs\Interbase\ODBC
13. Configure Data Sources (ODBC) using Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Data Sources (ODBC). Use System DSN tab. See file://///Mccoy/KML_root/ExperimentDB/ODBC_config/ExperimentDB_ODBC.txt for details.
14. Office XP Professional   file://///Mccoy/Install/OfficeXP using Setup.exe.
15. Developer Tools for Windows XP (optional), use hand-written number!!! Do not select SQL related stuff.
16. Matlab. Local install for the LabBook computer (Gypsy) and Keck-licensed install for the rest. Use file license.dat from file://///Mccoy/KML_root/ExperimentDB/MatlabSetupInfo/flexlm
    Copy file startup.m  from file://///Mccoy/KML_root/ExperimentDB/MatLabDB/StartUp to D:\Matlab\work 
17. Install mtlDB from file://///Mccoy/KML_root/ExperimentDB/MatLabDB/Install_mtlDB  using startup.exe
18. Visual Studio with the following options:
    • Do not install Visual Studio Analyzer (in Enterprise Tools), otherwise the setup will fail (known bug).
    • Do not install Visual Source Safe, don't forget to unselect VSS in the install choices.

    After the restart do not take the CD out: it will be needed after the logon. Install will continue and will request MSDN Lib disks.

19. Visual Source Safe from file://///Mccoy/KML_root/SystemProgs/VisualSourceSafe using NetSetup.exe
20. SP5 for for Visual Studio.
21. Netscape.
22. Acrobat Reader
23. GhostScript Viewer.
24. Other applications...

Last modified: April 9^th, 2003 by S. R.