After you choose your Cluster Disk Selection, you can define your cluster nodes in the screen shown in Figure F. As you can see, in this example I have a two-clustered node, so I have two clusters available. Figure F


Click Next to advance to the Remote Information screen, where you'll enter the appropriate credentials to connect to the nodes within the cluster. Simply enter a username that has administrative access to both machines. For a cluster to work in a domain, you must create a domain user account. During the installation of clustering, this account is given local administrator rights to each node as well. You can either use the account created when you installed clustering or specify a Domain Admin account with local administrative rights to each node of the cluster. After you enter the appropriate credentials, you can choose whether this installation of SQL Server 2000 will be the default instance or a named instance. Remember, you can have only one default instance per server. If this will be your default instance, simply select the Default check box and click Next. If this will be a named instance, type the instance name and click Next. Once you choose your instance, you can choose a Typical, Minimum, or Custom installation (Figure G). Figure G

• Choose Typical Installation if you want the generic install of SQL Server.
• Choose Minimum installation if you have only a small amount of disk space.
• Choose Custom installation if you want to define your options. For the purposes of this article, I chose to do a custom installation.

The next screen allows you to select your options. You can scroll through the Components list (Figure H) and add the ones you want. Most of the time you will accept the default options unless you want code examples.