Naahh just kidding i could not even log into a no firewall computer i used this subject cuz i knew that ALOT of poeple would help me plz no bad points.

I have a simple question it might have been asked alot of time still... i have red hat and i am a starter
my problems are:

1)When I type "startx" nothing happens no well it just mak alot off writing and doesnot login.
2)I was trying to play and when i typed "exec /usr/games/fortune" well it loged me off
3) I have supposely had already installed gnome (it is not me that installed linux on my cpu; my hard drive has 2 partitions so win 98 and linux red hat 7.3) when i just cannot figure out how am i supposed to load the gui.

thanks in advance