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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To connect or set in position and prepare for use.
- transitive verb To induct into an office, rank, or position.
- transitive verb To settle in an indicated place or condition; establish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To place in a seat; give a place to.
- To set, place, or instate in an office, rank, or order; invest with any charge, office, or rank with the customary ceremonies.
- To place in position for service or use.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
- transitive verb To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
connect ,set up orprepare something foruse - verb transitive To
admit formally into anoffice ,rank orposition . - verb transitive To
establish orsettle in. - noun informal Installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.)
- noun computing (jargon): A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb set up for use
- verb place
- verb put into an office or a position
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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To generate a log file, you will need to use msiexec from a command prompt to install the MSI, for example msiexec / i AspNetMVC1-RC2. msi / l*v. \install.log
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I restarted many times, since then I did an install& archive with the 10.2 install disc which I own. .all went well to the login screen I entered my login & password .. the screen shuddered and shuddered ..
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I have my Win install which is my main and Linux, which is my work.
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My Vista install is rock solid and full of feature and security enhancements compared to XP. mahumphrey atomicrabbit
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There will be some tweaks made so a fresh install is logical.
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The install is also 30MBs-ish, so it's a bit big for those (like me) who have a lot of apps on your phone.
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(Thanks to the author of this article for helping me out with my Snow Leopard install from a FireWire drive.)
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When I have any trouble with Ubuntu, the XP install is right there, and that is nice in the beginning.
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I would love to be able to purchase an OS able to install from a USB flash drive!
Microsoft May Sell Windows 7 On Flash Drives | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The install is painless and you rarely need to mess with text files any longer, so pretty much anybody could set it up in a matter of minutes.
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