Chapter 40

Operating System Installations and Upgrades

This chapter covers the following A+ 220-1102 exam objective:

  • Images 1.9 – Given a scenario, perform OS installations and upgrades in a diverse OS environment.

A technician may be called upon to install or reinstall an operating system to a new computer, an older computer, or a virtual machine. A smart technician knows the various ways to boot from an installation source, which may be removable media, a source that is internal to the computer, or a source that is stored on the network. Professional technicians will ask questions such as what type of installation is it? How will we partition and ...

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