Installation of SQL server 2012

In this blog post on SQL server, we are going to cover Installation of SQL server 2012.
Hardware and software requirements:
We start by going over the hardware and software requirements for SQL 2012 installation. This includes things like:

• CPU: For x86 1 GHz or faster, 2 GHz is recommended
• Operating System: SQL 2012 will run on Windows Vista, 7 and 2008
• RAM: Minimum 1 GB, recommended is 4 GB
• Hard Disk: You need 3 GB of disk space
• Also you need .NET framework 3.5 and IE 7 0 for SQL 2012 install.

Additional information is available from web site.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506.aspx
For the purposes of this SQL 2012 install, we are going to use the 3 files option. Once the 3 files are downloaded, you can extract the SQL 2012 Server installation files to a folder. You can get to these files from this location:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29066
Next we run the SETUP.EXE which will launch the SQL Server 2012 Installation center. This is shown right below.