Mouse Fatality in X-Windows

[Midgley John <John.Midgley@enorfolk-ha.anglox.nhs.uk>]

Hi all

I'm just getting started with Linux, and I've had several goes at
installing the Debian 2.0 distribution. I'm getting tanatalisingly close
to a working X-Windows installation - much video card clicking and
flashing - but it objects to a line in the XF86Config file which says
'/dev/mouse'.

I have a Compaq Deskpro with a mini-din-type mouse socket; W95 reports
it as a PS/2 Port Mouse. So my question is - what should the line read?
Not ttySanything? I've read the README.mouse document, but that seems
more interested in protocols than devices; it keeps saying something
like '/dev/xxx, where xxx is the name of the device'. But what *is* the
name?

As an aside, if I retrieve the whole Debian thing as a .raw file, to an
NT machine, how can I write it to a CD? (I have a CD Writer, obviously!)

Many thanks

John Midgley