K, so I managed to get a copy of the latest slackware 9.0.

I've just installed it successfully on an older PII 266.

I've been running mandrake 9 on my main box, and I'm hopefully planning to make the switch to slackware after I've tried it out on the old box.

The install went fairly smoothly, I installed everything, and X ran correctly out of the box. I successfully installed nvidia drivers and mosfet's theme. So far, I really like it.

A few questions though...mainly on how to change how things are run on my slackware box:

First, I noticed that only root can mount and access /mnt/floppy (and probably /mnt/cdrom, although I haven't checked). I want to change it so that normal users can mnt and access them. How? I was fiddling with permissions of the /mnt/floppy dir and /dev/fd0, but to no avail.

Second, in mandrake, when I run xterm, there was a way to, by using ctrl and click a mouse button, to get a menu that will allow me to change the size of the font used in xterm. How do I do this in slackware?

Third, I have a regular ps2 mouse (from Dell actually...) with a wheel. How do I get the wheel to work? In the install, I just chose ps2 mouse.

Finally, I notice that kde is not that snappy on my old box, and I want to try some of the lighter weight environments. What are the commands to do that?

Thanks all for your help.

For the mounting problem: Edit /etc/fstab
For the mouse: Edit /etc/X11/XFree86Config and change the mouse protocol from PS2 to IMPS2.

you also may need to add
option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" to your mouse config in Xfree86config like this:

ection "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

about the xterm thing, cntrl-click works in gentoo...it should work in slack also.

Fluxbox is probably one of the best lightweight environments.

How much ram do you have in it?
As kater said, fstab is the file you need to edit, do "man fstab" and look at the options.
If your using the KDE terminal then your probably using konsole, right click and select "Settings-->Font".
What busbarn said.
You can find blackbox and fluxbox packages in the /slackware-9.0/slackware/extra directory on your local slackware mirror.
Filling this PII 266 box with as much ram as you can get your hands on will speed things up a bit.

It has 287mb of ram

Its xterm that I'm using, not kde terminal, i.e. after pressing alt-F2, I type in xterm.

> Second, in mandrake, when I run xterm, there was a way to, by using ctrl > and click a mouse button, to get a menu that will allow me to change the
> size of the font used in xterm. How do I do this in slackware?

Pressing ctrl and the third mouse button should bring up the fontMenu when using a xterm (it does for me at least).