The Pom

Recently I successfully installed (on my laptop), Red Hat 9.0 to dual boot with XP. I cannot browse the internet with Red Hat. I am connected via an on-board NIC, ethernet cable and adsl modem. There is a desktop box on the workgroup network and under Red Hat I can browse to that and connect as a guest to a shared drive. I have used the terminal window to issue the <su root> command. This works ok, as does my password. No other command will work. So, if I type <ifonfig>, I get a message saying this command is not found. I get this for anything I type, for instance <adsl –start>. The exact result would be like this….. bash : adsl : command not found What the heck is ‘bash’ ? I am COMPLETE newbie and have not a clue how to find out if I have an ip address or to ping anywhere.[ I do know how to do so under Windows ]. The Linux command line is as good as Japanese to me so any Linux-speak is going to go over my head unless you break it down (like I’m a 10yr old) please. BTW, I would also like the dual boot interface to say ‘Windows XP’ instead of ‘DOS’, at boot-up and I would appreciate being advised how to configure this too please. All help will be appreciated - thank you.

Sorted I have changed the grub.conf using vi. I have 1001 other things I don't understand but as a newbie I can accept this at this stage. I have to thank those in this post for helping me through getting started. No doubt I'll be back. Cheers all

I'm good - ON LINE - and a happy chappy. Seemed there was both a problem with my router plus user rights with my log-in. Sorted :-) Danleff - no errors. I did that 'cos that's what I read I had to do. Mind you, I keep on reading conflicting things so I don't know what to believe. ifconfig is what I have seen and not the Windows ipconfig (under Linux). Does ipconfig work same as ifconfig? taeuler - no joy mate. I don't seem to have kwrite [did a search on my hd0] but do have gedit. Anyway, useless as when I type the command I still get the 'command is not found' message. Another odd this is that in my home directory I have two folders; one of which I can cd to and the other which I cannot. Now I have tried every way of putting slashes and upper/lower case all to no avail. What's the story with that? So, back to the DOS thing too. I already knew to change the grub.conf and can open it with a text editor but cannot edit a thing in there. It seems to be protected but I cannot see how. Help appreciated please