On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, spOOL wrote: > I have mounted my dos partition in Debian and can see all of the files but > can't use any of them. > > I should be able to use Wordview to view Word docs....right. Someone said > that I need to have fat/vfat compiled into the kernel.....how do I do > this?????? >
I'll let someone else explain how to compile the kernel... > Also, what would be the X equivilant of a win95: > shortcut > folder There are no X equivalents of these. These functions belong to the filesystem; X is simply a window/graphics system. In the filesystem, the equivalent to these would be symlinks (shortcut) and directories (folder). You can read about this in the Debian tutorial: http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html X provides no default interface to the filesystem, so you have to use the shell from an xterm. However, there are X "file managers" which do provide a filesystem interface. Examples of X file managers include TkDesk (in its own package) and kfm (in the KDE packages). A non-X file manager is mc, also in its own package. > scandisk > fdisk does this, but it's run automatically when the computer starts. So there's no reason to worry about doing it manually. > I would like to customize X more but can't figure out exactly how. Is it > all done from the xterm that it opens when I start. Kind of depends on your window manager. WindowMaker (wmaker package) provides some nice graphical configuration. Be sure to also install wmaker-data to get pretty icons. > BTW, where is the file > that I edit to change things such as my default window manager and > background color??? > Check out the tutorial again, it has a section on changing your window manager by editing the file ~/.xsession. To change the background color, try the command 'xsetroot -solid blue' or whatever you like; put it in your .xsession. WindowMaker also allows you to set the background from a nice menu; if you do that you won't want to use xsetroot. Havoc
