Joseph Tandl wrote:
>Can you point me to website(s) or person(s) with such knowledge?
>
Possibly the single most useful thing I have ever learned from this
mailing list is the existence of the command "apropos". You type:
apropos <keyword>
("apropos unzip" for example) and it will search all the documentation
on your system for manual pages which match the parameter you give it.
Then, once you've found the command, "man" will tell you all the
information you need to know.
As for your problem of getting the Nvidia stuff installed, if you've got
the RPMs for your system on the partition, then you should just be able
to ask RPM to install them. You install rpms with the command
rpm -ivh <rpmfile>
well, more accurately, i is for install, v is for verbose output and h
is for "display hash marks representing progress". I'm assuming that
means you've already got the drive mounted under linux. To navigate
through your drives you'll probably need to know about "ls" and "cd".
"cd" changes directories and functions very similarly to win9x/nt. "ls"
is an approximate equivalent of "dir". I suspect though that once you
get X running, RedHat will have enough stuff there to help you get
started. I'd suggest if you want to just get X running, without any
acceleration that you try running
XFree86 -configure
as root. The -configure flag tells X to probe your hardware and attempt
to build a base configuration file to get you started (can someone
running redhat and similar hardware verify that this will get it
running?). Once you have X running there's a lot of tools to help you do
stuff like navigate disks (nautilus is great for that), and I've got
something called "gnorpm" - I'm not sure if RedHat ships with it, but
it's a cute little program that lets you install software, view what's
installed etc etc. "startx" is the command to start X. You can also
switch to runlevel 5 if you want to have a gui login thing like windows
has (there's also security reasons to do this, but I suggest you get it
running with startx and take things from there)
The web is helpful as others have pointed out, there's also
documentation in /usr/share/doc... I can think of dozens of other
resources that have helped me along the way but probably the best thing
to do is to ask questions here asking for specific solutions to
problems. I find that I have somewhat of a boot strapping problem when
learning new operating systems, so asking around is often the best way
to get started.
HTH
James.
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