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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!grouper.Exis.Net!news.widomaker.com!not-for-mail From: exedore@widomaker.com (J.p. Lien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Freebsd Questions Date: 2 Feb 1996 12:41:39 -0500 Organization: Widomaker Public Access Internet (804)221-8070 Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4eticj$p46@wilma.widomaker.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wilma.widomaker.com I just installed FreeBSD on my system, and I have a couple of questions. My connection to the net is via a modem, and I would like to be able to download files in DOS, then move them over onto my bsd partition. Unfortunately I've not been able to find a good way to do this. GNU mtools will not allow me to access any drive other than 'a:' or 'b:', which it assumes to be the two floppy drives, I have also been unable to make it access my hard drive by specifying the source as 'dev/wd0x' which are my hard drive partitions. I tried 'mount' as well, but could not make it work, and it's man pages proved utterly uninformative. The FAQ tells me that there is no way to mount a DOS extended partition in the current version. The partition I am trying to access is my Primary partition. Is this a case of bad terminology in the FAQ, meaning that no DOS partition can be mounted, or is there a way to do it that I have missed? One other question regarding X. I installed the X binaries set, and have been having trouble configuring my programs, in particular, Seyon. The seyon man page continually refers to resources as the primary method of configuring it. I assumed these resources were set in the default config file '~/.seyon/startup' but it won't read them correctly from the file. From looking around other man pages and assorted documentation, I've begun to assume that 'resources' are sort of environment variables for X. Is this even remotely correct? and if so, how do I set them. Finally, I have a rather limited system, A 486dx2-66, with 8 megs of ram. I'm looking for a replacement Window Manager, and perhaps a replacement server, that will make X run well on my machine. I am currently using the Accelerated X server from the commerce package, and TWM, the default window manager. A friend recommended FVWM as a replacement for TWM, and I was wondering if this was indeed the manager I should use. thanks, j.p.