Before You Begin
Before you begin installing SharePoint you need to make some decisions. First, decide what service accounts will be used to run SharePoint. Second, decide on a naming convention for the SQL databases that will be created during configuration.

Service Accounts
There are many configuration possibilities for SharePoint service accounts. At a minimum however you should define one account which will act as the primary service account (your Farm Account), one account which will be used to crawl content, and one account which will be used as the application pool identity for your SharePoint site. This installation guide uses these three accounts.

Before starting with the install, create three domain accounts for each of the roles below. I recommend using a naming convention to easily identify that these three accounts are all SharePoint service accounts.

Farm Account
Crawl Account
Portal Account

Database Naming Conventions
A best practice is to define a common prefix that will be used for all SharePoint databases. This could be SharePoint_ or SP_ etc. For example, if you chose `SP_` as the prefix, your database names would end up looking like this:

SP_Config
SP_SSP_DB
SP_SSP_Search
SP_Portal_Content
etc.

Read the rest of this Moss Installation Guide here

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