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    So I installed Red hat...

    Sitting here tonight.. was installing new drivers in windows, and it went bung.. windows wouldnt load.. and I had a Red Hat 8.0 CD sitting next to me...

    So, i no longer have windows, no drivers are installed, and have no idea what im doing...

    WHAT DO I DO!!!

    First thing i want to get working is Firefox, so then I have something fimilar.. So i went to the mozilla home page, downloaded it.. and its just a file full of files.. WTF!!

    What do I do??


    EDIT: Gotta sleep now.. and i managed to get IRC working, so when I wake i could maybe join the hexus channel.. which is ???..
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    i'm shocked you got that far - red hat 9 is ANCIENT, and shouldn't run at all on post-2002 hardware



    firefox from mozilla.org comes as a .tar.gz compressed file - either with an installer (extract somewhere, then run 'sh firefox-installer' from within the firefox-installer directory, in a console. or, it comes without an installer - extract to /opt or /usr/local, and 'sh run-firefox.sh'

    either way, red hat 8 is really very old, very insecure, and lacks the ability to use a fair amount of modern software, due to very old libraries. if you want to use linux, i _HEARTILY_ suggest using something made in the past 2 years

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    the hexus irc channel is #hexus.net on irc.quakenet.net

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    Im sorry

    It was the only OS I had that worked that was sitting around as I lost my XP cd key... well its somewhere around here... :S

    So what would you recomend I do?

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    sort out your windows situation (e.g. ring microsoft support for help, that's what you pay them for), or get a close associate to burn a recent linux distribution for you

    actually, looking at your signature, ATI's linux drivers are beyond abominable (50-66% slower than an equivalently priced nvidia, ti4200 33% faster than 9800xt), so as long as you have the radeon, i think you should be looking into fixing windows

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    hell, you could buy any linux magazine, they usually have at least one recent distribution on the coverdiscs, i think linux format has mandrake 10.1, another has suse 9.2, this month

    but that won't fix the fact that ati suck under linux...

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    Well this just keeps getting better :-\

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    certainly the magazine coverdisk option is better than sticking with RH8, but if you want stale, fast 3d acceleration, you won't get it under linux with an ati - making your final goal getting windows working, or getting an nvidia

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