In fact, both installations share the same steps, except
that at the end of the Server Core installation process, rather than facing an Initial
Configuration Tasks screen, you are presented with a command prompt. You will make
all your configuration changes using this command prompt. If you close the command
prompt, you will have to press ctrl-alt-del, click Start Task Manager, click File, then
click Run and enter cmd.exe to open a new command prompt.
Requirements
Windows Server 2008 Server Core shares the same minimum requirements with the
regular Windows Server 2008 installation??”with a few caveats. In addition to having
the Windows Server 2008 installation media and a valid product key, you will also need
to perform a clean installation. You cannot upgrade from previous versions of Windows
to a Server Core installation, you cannot upgrade from a regular Windows Server 2008
installation to Server Core, and you cannot move from Server Core to a regular Windows
Server 2008 installation. Server Core must be installed from scratch. You should also have
Internet access so that the server can be activated after the installation completes. Also,
since fewer binaries are installed as part of Server Core, the hard disk space requirements
are much lower for Server Core than they are for the regular Windows Server 2008 installation.
You will need only 1GB of disk space for the actual Server Core installation and
2GB of disk space for regular server operations.
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