What is "In-box driver"

[khonjo]

The following is an excerpt from the README.HTM in LH setup files:

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You can install "Longhorn" onto a partition or drive that meets the following criteria:

It has a minimum of 3 gigabytes (GB) of free space.

It has an in-box driver.

It is not a hidden partition or reserved for use by your OEM.

It is not a dynamic disk.

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In the above, what is "an in-box driver"?

Kaz

[BeenThereB4]

Without this special driver, you will not be able to receive any email. You must purchase this driver from your ISP before installing. You can however still send email since the out-box driver is included free.

(Alternate action for those with no sense of humor: substitute the word "included" for "in-box" in the README.HTM)

[gosh]

in-box means on the cd. So if a driver is in-box, it's on the longhorn cd. If it's not in-box, youll obviously need to download the driver from a 3rd party website.

-gosh

[khonjo]

Thanks for your response. I have figured it out by now.

I think it is a terrible writing. "It" in "It has an in-box driver" represents "a partition or drive". "in-box driver" appears to mean "driver included in LH setup files". Then the sentence can be paraphrased as "Partition has a driver included in LH setup files". Well, a partition on which LH to be installed is a newly created one and has nothing in it. I just wanted to fume over this matter. Than you for reading this.

Kaz