Alan,
I don't understand your problem with Carol.She actually did post the
specs on her monitor at one point--I remember seeing them. She's a newbie
to Linux, just like others on this list. There are plenty of obfuscatory
descriptions on this list. I've never seen you complain to the rest
I do have the Boot Magic provided on disk 3 of Mandrake 7. Maybe I will try
that first, and then just do an upgrade rather than a full install. Really,
what else is it for but to tinker around with. It's not like I have much
Stuff Of Importance on either hard drive yet, since the PC is a grand
John wrote:
The BIOS is on the mother board itself and is coded on to the BIOS chip.
Without it Intel systems don't run since it loads the initial boot up
program from the MBR. Win/DOS also has a software "BIOS" as well, one of
a
pair of hidden system files that DOS (and OS/2, Win9* and NT
