prepairing an ide pentium machine bios: -primairy ide conntroler on -secondairy ide controler off -boot on all error -boot order A C -isa/legacy irq 10 -com1 on 3h8 irq 4 -usb off -printerport off -atx reboot after powerfailure -check date & time checks before config: -boot after power drop -boot floppy checks after config: -boot hd -login on serial -login on ssh -boot after power drop -check isa devices administration: -hardware/i386 -labeling I