Technical Vocational Education(TVE) 9

Learning Activity Sheet in ICT

First Quarter – Week 5

PREPARE INSTALLER

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Prepared by

MARILOU F. ANGADOL

DepEd • CAR • Schools Division of Mountain Province

Tadian I • Tadian School of Arts and Trades
 Information Sheet 1.9

PREPARE INSTALLER

I. Learning Competency:
MELC:
➢ prepare installer in accordance with software utilization guide and end user
agreement
Specific Objectives:
1. Identify the essential factor of different boot devices.
2. Arrange correctly and in order the procedures in preparing bootable devices.

II. Background Information for Learners

Preparing Bootable Media
1. INTRODUCTION

As was presented in the previous modules, a computer system is composed of three

components: hardware, software and people. Wherein each component plays an important
role, without each other computer systems will not work properly. While the previous lessons
focused on the hardware component of a computer this one will give you an introduction to
the next component, the software. one of the most important software of a computer – the
operating system.

Software is the set of instructions (also called a program) that guides the hardware to operate
effectively.

Operating System
an operating system is the most important software that runs on a computer. It
manages the computer's memory and processes, as well as all of its software and hardware.
It also allows you to communicate with the computer without knowing how to speak the
computer's language.

Examples of Operating Systems:

a. WINDOWS
e.g. Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
b. MAC OS
e.g. Mountain Lion, Yosemite, Sierra, Mavericks
c. LINUX
e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Mandriva

2. BOOTABLE MEDIA

Boot is the process of loading the first piece of software that starts a computer – the
operating system. Because the operating system is essential for running all other programs,
it is usually the first piece of software loaded during the boot process.

A boot device (aka bootable device/bootable media) is any piece of hardware that
can read or contains the files required for a computer to start.
 Examples of bootable media are hard drive, floppy disk drive, CD-ROM
drive, DVD drive, and USB jump drives. However, unless the necessary boot files are
stored on the drive, diskette, or disc, the computer cannot boot from that device.

The most commonly used boot device or boot drive is the hard drive. When
an operating system, such as Microsoft Windows, is installed onto the hard drive, it copies the
boot files and drivers required to load Windows onto the computer. When installing a new
operating system, troubleshooting the computer, or booting from another drive (e.g., CD-ROM
drive), a bootable disc or setup disc is inserted into the drive. If the boot sequence is set up
correctly in CMOS setup and the bootable disc is in the computer, it will load from the disc.

Bootable media is most often used to:

• recover an operating system that cannot start
• access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system
• back up sector-by-sector a disk with an unsupported file system
• hardware or software troubleshooting

The process of booting

The term boot comes from the idea of lifting oneself by one's own bootstraps: the
computer contains a tiny program (bootstrap loader) which will load and run a program found
on a boot device.

Warm Boot vs. Cold Boot

• Cold Boot -To perform a cold boot (also called a "hard boot") means to start up a
computer that is turned off. It is typically performed by pressing the power button on the
computer.

• Warm Boot -To perform warm boot (also called a "soft boot") means to restart a
computer. It is typically initiated from the operating system, rather than pressing a button on
the computer itself.

For example, to perform a warm boot on a Windows system, you may select Shut
Down → Restart from the Start Menu. If you use a Mac, you can perform a warm boot by
selecting Restart… from the Apple Menu

3. PREPARATION OF BOOTABLE MEDIA

There two (2) ways in which a bootable flash drive may be

created. One is by using the Diskpart Command with the
Command Prompt. Another one is by using third party
applications.

The following are examples of third-party applications for creating bootable media:

o Rufus o WintoUSB
o WinSetUpFromUSB o Easy2boot
o Etcher o Etc.

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A. HOW TO CREATE A BOOTABLE USB FLASH DRIVE USING DISKPART/CMD

Needs: Flash Drive and Windows Installer Copy

1. Insert a USB flash drive into a running computer.

2. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator.

3. Type diskpart then hit ENTER.

4. In the new command line window that opens, to determine the USB flash drive number
or drive letter, at the command prompt, type list disk, and then click ENTER. The list
disk command displays all the disks on the computer. Note the drive number or drive
letter of the USB flash drive.

5. At the command prompt, type select disk <X>, where X is the drive number or drive letter
of the USB flash drive, and then click ENTER. In this example, 1 is the number of the
drive.

6. Type clean, and the click ENTER. This command deletes all data from the USB flash
drive.

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7. To create a new primary partition on the USB flash drive, type create partition primary,
and then click ENTER.

8. To select the partition that you just created, type select partition 1, and then click
ENTER.

9. Type active, and then click ENTER.

10. To format the partition, type format fs=ntfs quick, and then click ENTER.
Important
If your server platform supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), you
should format the USB flash drive as FAT32 rather than as NTFS. To format the partition
as FAT32, type format fs=fat32 quick, and then click ENTER.

11. Type assign and then click ENTER

12. Type exit, and then click ENTER.

13. You can now extract files from any windows Operating system installer and save it to
the root of the USB flash drive.

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B. HOW TO CREATE A BOOTABLE FLASH DRIVE USING THIRD PARTY MEDIA----
RUFUS

It is very common to use a bootable USB drive instead of a CD/DVD drive to install
the operating system. For Windows there are a ton of software programs that help you
create bootable USB drives. Of all the available tools, Rufus, a free and open-source
application, is one of the best. In fact, Rufus is one of those tools that every Windows user
should have in their software catalog.

Note: This lesson assumes you already have the ISO file of the OS you wish to install. If you
don’t have the ISO file, you can download it from the developer website. Also, make sure that
the USB drive you are using is at least 8 GB and has no important data in it.

1. First, download Rufus if you haven’t already. After

downloading, install and open Rufus.

2. Plug in the USB drive, and you will instantly see it in the top
drop-down menu. Once you see the drive, click on the “Select”
button to load the ISO file of the OS you wish to put in your flash drive.
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3. In the Browse window go to where you’ve stored your ISO file, select it, and click on the
“Open” button.

4. Select “MBR” from the Partition Scheme drop-down menu then Target Menu should
automatically go to BIOS (or UEFI-CSM). This option enables the media to work for both old
and new BIOS (UEFI).

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5. Click on the “Start” button.

6. As soon as you click on the button, Rufus starts to create the bootable USB drive.
Depending on your USB drive, it can take a few minutes to complete the creation process.

7. Once completed, you will not see a completion message but will hear a completion sound,
and the progress bar will turn fully green.