Ugh... linux, the greatest operating system but the downside on my butt is that its too damn hard to understand! I'm posting because I need some help setting this here redhat 9 on my box. The first problem I experienced was that my sound didnt work so I bought a new sound card and it works. I needed to install the new nvidia drivers but I cant because "x" has to be closed. How am I to install it if it wont let me have x open? Wow. I still cant get my drivers to work. Heres what I type and heres what I get:

a) I type "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run"

b) This is what I get:
"ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING
THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver
download page at www.nvidia.com"
Now surely you dont expect me to waste my precious time and go to the site. Well im not that dumb, I did and it doesnt explain anything else besides close x and stuff. Man I need some help.

Another problem I have is that I have all my files on my seccond hard drive which has a ntfs partition and it worked fine on windows but on linux, it doesnt seem to read it. Here is the thing where it says all the other things that people would want to know. If you find out what I can do to get my seccond hard drive up, i would be very greatful. Please help me if you know how


LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,r
o 0 0


I still have more problems like how to get windows games runnin here and how to freakin get my ethernet dsl modem to work on RH9. Its an alcatel speed touch home ethernet. Looks like a square box, if you know how to install, please help.


...yeah, runnin red hat 9