Things to Have

The following lists contains items required for proper installation of an experimental Windows 2000 network as used in this book.

To install Windows 2000 Server (as a domain controller):

• Windows 2000 Server installation disk. I used disk 12 of MSDN Development Platform (English), February 2000.
• Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 for U.S. English. See below for a detailed description how I got it.

To install Windows 2000 Professional with development environment:

• Windows 2000 Professional installation disk. I used disk 10 of MSDN Development Platform (English), February 2000.
• Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 for U.S. English.
• Visual Studio 6.0 installation disk. I used disk 1 of MSDN Office Test Platform & Development Tools U.S., March 1999.
• Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 4. I used disk 8 of MSDN Development Platform (English), September 2000.
• Microsoft Platform SDK - July 2000 Edition. I used disk 3 of MSDN Development Platform (English), August 2000.

How to obtain the latest Windows 2000 Service Pack:

I downloaded it. The following Microsoft article describes how to obtain it and provides a link for download.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q260/9/10.ASP

Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 for U.S. English, Network Installation option, is a self-extracting cabinet file named sp1network.exe. Its size is 87,326,656 bytes. I burned it onto a CD for convenience.

To install Linux firewall:

• A computer with 2 network cards is required.
• Redhat Linux 7.0 CD1. See below how to obtain and burn the disk.

How to make Linux installation CD:

The procedure below describes how I made Redhat Linux 7.0 installation CD-ROM.

• Download disk image file in ISO format. The following Redhat web site http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html contains a list of mirror sites around the world from where you can try downloading. Notice that not all sites are equal. Some are fast, some are slow. You may wish to experiment with a few before starting a real download. The problem here is the size of the file (about 650 MB). It takes about an hour to download the file over an ADSL connection assuming the server is not delaying anything. Most of mirror servers do suffer from overload. I used anonymous download from sunsite.ualberta.ca, directory /pub/Mirror/Linux/redhat/redhat-7.0/iso. Two images (files) may be found there: 7.0-i386-disc1.iso, and 7.0-i386-disc2.iso. It is the first file that is necessary. Download the file 7.0-i386-disc1.iso (takes time!).
• The next thing to do is to burn a CD. Don't bother with just copying the file onto a CD-ROM, that would not do. An ISO file is a specially formatted CD-ROM disk image. What this means is that the entire file system of a disk is packaged into one ISO file. I used Adaptec Easy CD Creator, "File - Create CD from Disk Image" menu option supplying appropriate ISO file as the source. This action creates appropriate directory structure on a target disk. Notice that the entire sequence of operations may fail because of some problems on the way. I made at least a few mistakes here. I did not know at first how to burn CDs out of ISO images and wasted a few disks. I also downloaded 2 ISO files and tried to make 2 CDs (CD1 and CD2). For some reason creation of the second disk did not go well and the resulting disk became corrupt (could not read file system structure either on NT or Linux). Fortunately, CD2 is not required for installation described here. The ultimate goal here is having a CD1 burned with readable file system (the files should be visible, you can try Windows NT or 2000 to browse through the contents of the disk.