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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
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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.)
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