G'day - Intro (longish) - and need some help down here ...

G'day I'm new to DEBIAN and need some help/pointer on how to get some sort of X session going. xstart doesn't work. I'm running W2KProf on a COMPAQ Armada E500 and managed to load DEBIAN from CD (got The advanced linux POCKETBOOK from Australian Personal Computing). Yes I know I should use som

OK, I got X working now why does pppconfig do weard stuff?

G'day again I managed to update and install DEBIAN (2.2r2 potatoe?) and now have the Mach64 X server as my default. It works on the Compaq Armada E500. But now I open a xterm - it's properties are white background and the the prompt is: "nodename:~#". Q1: How/where do I change the properties f