fairly dumb question about icewm floppy icon and desktop software....

Dear Debian folks,

I recently stuck a 13 GB drive in a Gateway 2000 Pentium 133 Mhz ancient PC.

I loaded Sarge 3.1 r3 on it.

This was a slow process and involved a certain amount of farting around in the installation but in the end it worked.

On a machine like this gnome is a non-starter. It is too slow.

So I bunged icewm on instead and it works OK speed wise.

It feels right.

But I have some ignorances that are spoiling my fun a bit.

One thing is that I can't seem to find any icon for the floppy like there is in gnome.

What do you do here? Do you open a terminal window put the floppy in and use the mount command to read it?

What about a CD?

Another problem I have is that Openoffice takes ages to load and I think the machine is struggling a bit with it.

There doesn't seem to be any abiword or whatever it is in the default icewm installation. Presumably if I install abiword using apt then it will be automatically incorporated into the icon set up and I will be able to fire it up from the window manager....

It's shame that Openoffice 1.1 is so slow because I like what it does....

A smaller spread*** software would also be useful.

I ended up using the openoffice print manager or whatever it is to configure the printer.

I trust this is what you are supposed to do. It didn't have as many drivers as the gnome beastie and so I am not sure if it will drive the Epson C86 smelly inkjet printer I use.

I will do what I can with it.

Suggestions on how to get this system to work about as well as can be expected given the old hardwre would be appreciated.

Regards

Michael Fothergill

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