shobhit

yes you can install RH9 on your pc. linux works on almost all configurations of pc, so there should not be a problem for you. first you will have to down load the ISO images and burn them on a cd. then you can put in the cd and follow the on screen instructions to install the os. they are pretty simple and in most cases the default choices are the correct choices. all you need is some free space in your box.(i am assuming you have windows installed). in linux you need atleast two partitions root ( '/' ) and swap. the swap is typically 2-3 times your RAM and the root is the amount you want to dedicate for linux. typically you need around 3-4 gb for the system files. if you are planning to install windows later on then don't. windows expects to be the os on the system and it won't coexist with others. so install windows first and then install linux, which won't mind.

mplayer is a good video player available for linux. it can files in lots of format provided you download the relevant codecs for them. you can get mplayer from mplayerhq.hu

the iso images of the cd need to be burnt to the disk, for the install to work. i am not sure what undisker does, and how it burnt the CDs.

putting that in english would really help.

what is the file system on that drive. linux currently has write support for fat only, ntfs is only read and that too experimental. i think the correct way to have write permission over there is to edit your fstab file in the row for hdb, fourth column the entry is most probably 'default', change it to 'user'. by default only root will have write access to that hard drive, changing it to user allows users write access.

before you do fixboot and fixmbr create a linux boot disk or a grub boot disk. so that if anything goes wrong you can still boot into your linux distro.

if you have the winxp disk, then boot from it. goto the command prompt and do fixboot fixmbr this will overwrite your mbr with the windows loader. next open desktop in xp right click on my computer and select manage from the list. in the manage window, on the left pane you will see a menu for disk storage, open that it will show you your whole disk (including the linux partition not visible in my comp.) just choose the linux partition and format it to dos (FAT 32 of ntfs) donot format these partitions if you cannot overwrite the mbr with the windows loader, because then you will not be able to boot into windows after that.

to pass the boot option if you are using grub edit the file /etc/grub.conf there will you will see a line title <linux distro> below it another line kernel <parameters> at the end of the kernel <parameters> just add the parameters you want to pass to the kernel at boot time. next time you reboot the parameters will automatically be passed. i don't know how to do it in lilo. you can try editing the lilo.conf file. if you want to pass the parameters just once and not every time your computer boots then you when you get the grub menu at boot, you can edit the boot options and add the parameters in the same place as mentioned above.

if you are using grub then you can simply edit your /etc/grub.conf file, in the line containing timeout there will be 30 for your system, you can set it smaller values, as you wish. if you set it to zero then remember you will not be able to boot into linux after that.

what exactly are the contents of your grub.conf file it is in the directory /boot/grub/grub.conf it should have a section for DOS title dos rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1

i have a 40 gb hdd installed as pri. master on my system. i installed rh 9.0 on it. everything works fine. but i can only access around 13 gb of my hdd. 5 gb / 5 gb /home 384 mb swap 3gb as fat32 which i have mounted on /mnt/fat32 how do i access the rest of my hdd. its not a partitioning problem. because i did mkfs.msdos to make the fat32 partition. it only gave me the above mentitioned 3 gb.

check your grub.conf file /etc/grub.conf under the windows section see that you unhide the partition which is mentiones as root title dos rootnoverify (hdx,y) chainloader +1 make it title dos unhide (hdx,y) rootnoverify (hdx,y) chainloader +1 where in hdx,y the x,y represent the actual numbers mentioned.

do you have a compiler installed on your system? obviously you don't and that is needed to compile the source code. so first install a c compiler like 'gcc' on your machine. you can get gcc from fsf.org

you can use xmms for converting mp3 to wav. use the disk writer plugin. in the preferences, set the output plugin to disk writer. play the file you want to convert. the file will not be played (i.e. is no music), but you will get a wav file of the mp3.

i did not have any problems installing xp and rh9 on the same box. i have mercury mother board, with intel celeron. it worked the first time, with no problems whatever. wish you all the best.