Finally, after months of pissing and moaning about it, I have successfully installed and configured a dual-boot system of Win98 and RedHat 7.3 (Kernel 2.4.18-3). (Disk Druid is useless in this situation...use FIPS )

I am completely immersed in the functional learning process right now, but have a couple of questions...

When I do have a cable modem (anytime now, Mr. Landlord), will both Windows and Linux be able to recognize them without changing configurations every time I boot into one system or the other?

Also, I am having a hard time understanding the file permissions protocols in Linux...is there a good tutorial or website that I could check out to simplify things a bit? (I am the root user, after all...although the other users consist of my wife and daughter ...but hey...might as well know how to do everything, right?)

And as far as mounting applications...I am experimenting with Civilization 2 (made for Windows)... GNOME/Nautilus display the CD and its contents, but I am at a loss in installing and/or playing the game. Am I looking at things the wrong way, or taking a wrong turn somewhere?

All thanks for any advice, and I would RTFM, but manuals are so lifeless that I get bored rather quickly...

Ouroboros