Note
If you are completing a migration, you must create an answer file, which makes this a mandatory step.
When SBS 2008 is installing, it looks for the answer file on all drives, including every USB stick or floppy drive in the system. It provides the information required for the SBS 2008 setup program to perform a migration rather than a clean installation. There is no way to perform a migration without using the file produced by the answer file tool.
Navigate back to the Tools folder on the DVD and run the SBSAfg.exe
program to create the answer file.
Note
You will require either a floppy disk, USB drive, or the ability to create your own SBS 2008 DVD with the answer file embedded on it.
There are three important sections in the answer file, namely the first and last two sections, but the others enable you to enter information once now so that you don't have to enter it again.
Once the tool is started, ensure that the type is set to Migration from...