What exactly are you trying to do? If you have Linux and Windows installed you should have LILO or another bootloader to come up during boot and ask you witch OS you want to use. I f it only boots to Windows then you should have a Linux boot disk to start Linux up with. You did make a Linux boot disk did'nt you? If you did the default RedHat install, you already have Gnome and KDE as well as a few other managers. As I said. When you get the login for Linux and you log in. You are in Linux. Linux is DOS like in that it is command line. All you will have is a prompt if you did'nt set it to start X-windows at boot when you did the install.

Go here for info: http://www.redhat.it/support/docs/fa...l_faq/FAQ.html

To enable X to be running at boot time, and you using the xdm to log in, you need to change the file /etc/inittab.

Edit your /etc/inittab file. Replace this line:


id:3:initdefault:

With this one:


id:5:initdefault:

Go to the link I gave you before and read up on it.