Installing the Operating System

Operating system installations can be lumped into two generic methods: attended or unattended. During an attended installation, you walk through the installation manually and answer the questions as prompted. Questions about the product key, the directory in which you want to install the operating system (OS), and relevant network settings are typically asked.

As simple as attended installations may be, they’re time consuming and administrator intensive in that they require someone to fill in a fair number of fields to move through the process. Unattended installations allow you to configure the OS with little or no human intervention.

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