Alright everyone forgive me for asking another dumb question but how do I 
get my cdrom to mount. (seemed easier on the sgi)

one other question is concerning X I seem to be having one last problem...

I can now start X ok.  I have it in my path and everything is cool...

once X has started I get the crosshatch screen and then the Big X cursor 
in the screen and it moves so nothing is locked up yet...(I hope)
but nothing everhappens past here...

I know that I must need some config files some where... I put a directory in 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit but don't have the slightest clue if the file 
that I created for .xinitrc is valid or not and if anything else needs to 
be in here for x to run properly...
what is in .xinitrc is 
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm &
exec twm

so I probally need to add some other files somewhere but I don't have 
even a small clue when it comes to X since I have only used solaris and X 
already configured on the sgi's at school...

Help

Thanks everyone...

Kirk Boston, RCDD
System Admin/JOAT
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