Copied from WSS FAQ Site for my own notes to follow.
How to install WSS in Account Creation Mode.
This is also how to install a single server farm using SQL Server.
If you don't use the advanced method, MSDE will be installed even if SQL is on the server.
This list is by Pol Harris .
1. Launch setup.exe
2. On the Installation Types dialog, click Advanced.
3. On the Server Type dialog, make sure Web Front End is selected, then click Install Now.
4. Setup then continues to install the appropriate files and might take a while.
5. When done installing files, click Close to run the SharePoint
Products and Technologies Configuration wizard, then Next and Yes to begin.
6. On the Connect to a SharePoint Farm page, choose No, then click Next.
7. Enter the database server and database name for your SQL Server. If the SQL Server is installed on the same machine, enter your machine name.
8. On the Configure SharePoint Central Administration Web Application page, choose an easy to remember port and click NTLM, then Next.
9. On the Completing the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard page, click Advanced Settings.
10. On the Advanced Settings dialog, click on Enable AD Account Creation Mode and fill in the information for your Active Directory environment. Click
OK when done.
11. Click Next to finish SharePoint Products and Technologies
Configuration wizard.
12. Once done, the Central Administration home page should load.
13. Click Operations | Outgoing e-mail settings and configure the outbound SMTP server, then click OK.
14. No WSS web applications have been created, so you can create a new one through the UI (Application Management | Create or extend Web application).
15. To create a new site collection, run the following from the command shell:
cd %commonprogramfiles%\microsoft shared debug\web server extensions\12\bin
STSADM.EXE -o createsite –url http://<server>:<port> -owneremail <e-mail
address> –ownername “<name>”