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This means that the computer is not yet set up for the
equipment you have installed and you must run the Setup
program, described in Chapter 2. For now, press the Fl key on
the upper left comer of the keyboard to acknowledge the
message and continue.
If you have a SCSI hard disk drive installed with your system,
the SCSI BIOS message may be appeared before the above
message.
If you cannot see the screen display clearly, use the controls on
your monitor to adjust the brightness and contrast until
characters on the screen are clear and bright.
The computer then loads MS-DOS, the operating system, from
the hard disk into memory. MS-DOS must be in the
computer's memory before you can run any program, such as a
word processing program or a spreadsheet program.
The Command Prompt
After the computer has loaded MS-DOS from the hard disk,
you see the MS-DOS command prompt on the screen:
The command prompt tells you that your computer is ready to
receive instructions. It also identifies the current operating
drive: A or C, for example. The command prompt appears on
the screen whenever you load MS-DOS, complete an MS-DOS
command, or exit an application.
In your computer, the diskette drive is A and the hard disk is
drive C. If you have an optional second diskette drive, MS-DOS
identifies it as B.
Setting Up Your System
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