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 --
I stand duly corrected. Still I've seen it refered to as the other somewhere.
It doesn't really matter. It's the most basic form of computer.You cannot get more first level than bios.
John
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