Re: accessing Win95-hours50-to-load filesystems
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
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