>> 3) 'startx clientargs' doesn't work.
>
>This may be a silly question, but did you configure X first? It's a
>separate task to installing the OS. It'd also help a lot if you gave the
>output of startx so we could see the problem.

Yes, I did configure X.  But I didn't explain the problem very well. What I
should have said is 'startx clientargs' doesn't look at the file 'clientargs' -
as shown by it's access time.

Regards ..