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by **Frederick Gord** » Tue, 18 Nov 1997 04:00:00

Hello,

I'm a Linux-newbie (switching from WinNT) and installed a copy of
Caldera OpenLinux Base 1.1 on my laptop (Toshiba Tecra 720CDT with
48MB of RAM). Installation etc went fine, and XFree is also running
quite OK. However, I'm left with a few questions:

1. After entering 'startx' I get into the X Server but it only has 3
windows open (xterm and login and xclock). I try typing fvwm or exec
fvwm, but it doesn't work... How do I get the OpenLinux Desktop
running? And how do I get it ALWAYS running (so that I don't have to
type anything), and how do I get rid of those 3 windows?

2. Where's the file X86Config located?

3. I seem to have the following subdirs: X11, X11R6 and X386. I did
install version 3.3.1 of Xfree, can I delete any of these dir's?

4. I seem not to be able to read a FAT-formatted Jaz drive (which is
connected via an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card and recognised as sda)
using $ mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/sda . The /mnt/sda dir exists, but
I get the usual error saying it can't read it (i see it accesses the
drive)... Mounting a normal partition on another SCSI disk works...
Any help?

Thanks so much for answerring all this!!!!

Frederick Gordts
Belgium

by **Adrian Hand** » Sun, 23 Nov 1997 04:00:00

> Hello,

> I'm a Linux-newbie (switching from WinNT) and installed a copy of
> Caldera OpenLinux Base 1.1 on my laptop (Toshiba Tecra 720CDT with
> 48MB of RAM). Installation etc went fine, and XFree is also running
> quite OK. However, I'm left with a few questions:

> 1. After entering 'startx' I get into the X Server but it only has 3
> windows open (xterm and login and xclock). I try typing fvwm or exec
> fvwm, but it doesn't work... How do I get the OpenLinux Desktop
> running? And how do I get it ALWAYS running (so that I don't have to
> type anything), and how do I get rid of those 3 windows?

Type "ps -x | grep fvwm". I think you will find fvwm IS running.It gets
started by ~/.xsession as your xclock and xterm probably are ?
If you want your system to run X at boot you probably want to run xdm.
I setup xdm on mine by this to /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99local:

# Added by AEH 11/15/97:
XDM=/usr/X11/bin/xdm
[ -x $XDM ] && $XDM

This works...but I think the "correct" way to do it may be to add it to
/etc/inittab ?
I don't know what you mean by OpenLinux desktop (I'm using RedHat 4.1).
You get the filemanager from xfm

Quote:> 2. Where's the file X86Config located?

> 3. I seem to have the following subdirs: X11, X11R6 and X386. I did
> install version 3.3.1 of Xfree, can I delete any of these dir's?

If you do "ls -ld /usr/X*" I think you will see that only X11R6 is a real
directory.The others are only symbolic links (symbolic links are created
with "ln -s", see "man ln").
I would advise to NOT delete them.

Quote:> 4. I seem not to be able to read a FAT-formatted Jaz drive (which is
> connected via an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card and recognised as sda)
> using $ mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/sda . The /mnt/sda dir exists, but
> I get the usual error saying it can't read it (i see it accesses the
> drive)... Mounting a normal partition on another SCSI disk works...
> Any help?

Iomega likes to use partition #4, try:# mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/sda
You will probably have to be root
If this works, you should probably add it to /etc/fstab
I'd make it /mnt/jaz instead of /mnt/sda...but do what you want

--
Adrian Hands
Raleigh, NC

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