-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:51 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Melissa Reese wrote: > > As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB > > drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error > > myself, because if all I mess up is the fresh drive with no essential > > data on it yet, I can always just start over. However, there's another > > thing I'll have to decide with regards to how worried I should be > > about performing the installation without expert supervision... > > Exactly, so just go ahead and install on your hdb, the 20g drive. > > > The starter guide also suggests possibly changing a setting or two in > > the BIOS in order to make the installation smoother for MDK. > > Such as ? > > > Since the > > BIOS is, as far as I understand it (which may not be very far), a > > system wide setting (affecting both hard drives, no?), > > Bios, means Built In Operating System , and the most basic computer > there is,
http://searchWin2000.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci213814,00.html It actually is an acronym for Basic Input/Output System. For any other acronyms you want to define may I suggest: http://whatis.techtarget.com/ There's an alphabetical list there. <evil grin> Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 14:06:16 up 1:32, 1 user, load average: 0.85, 0.40, 0.32 E.T. GO HOME!!! (And take your Smurfs with you.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uotRG11CaRuZZSIRApuhAKCPGJcgHYz2gttha7ThPDk/3cXH6QCeOOPC peGxvgax6bl51q04cjv1vA4= =5snq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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