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So I've just finished installing RH9 on my shiny new (well dusty old really, but you know) file/netserver, and bloody samba won't start. I discover that RH9 doesn't have native support for my 1Gb ethernet card, but the drivers come in makefiles. So... erm... what do I do with those? I know precisely jack about Linux

If it's the standard routine you cd to the source directory and do

./configure
make
make install

But it might not work like that for drivers. I'm not totally sure. Most of my Linux usage has been as a plain ol' user rather than as a sysadmin.

You'll probably have to read the included README file. Try Vasey's solution though, it might work.

But bah, you're behind the times. You could try messing with Fedora Core 1 or Fedora Core 2 Test 1 -- those are the 'free' varients of Red Hat Linux now, and FC1 is the latest stable release for it. FC2 Test 1 is somewhat bleeding edge.

phongn wrote:You'll probably have to read the included README file. Try Vasey's solution though, it might work.

README? D'Oh!

phongn wrote:But bah, you're behind the times. You could try messing with Fedora Core 1 or Fedora Core 2 Test 1 -- those are the 'free' varients of Red Hat Linux now, and FC1 is the latest stable release for it. FC2 Test 1 is somewhat bleeding edge.

I'm having enough trouble working out how anything works in a public distro!Specially since I want it to talk to WinXP/NTFS systems, and I know nothing of linux!

Stark wrote:

phongn wrote:You'll probably have to read the included README file. Try Vasey's solution though, it might work.

README? D'Oh!

phongn wrote:But bah, you're behind the times. You could try messing with Fedora Core 1 or Fedora Core 2 Test 1 -- those are the 'free' varients of Red Hat Linux now, and FC1 is the latest stable release for it. FC2 Test 1 is somewhat bleeding edge.

I'm having enough trouble working out how anything works in a public distro!Specially since I want it to talk to WinXP/NTFS systems, and I know nothing of linux!

Linux doesn't talk too well with NTFS. I know there are ways around it, but as far as I know you need aditional packets.

If you want read support for NTFS in Fedora and Red Hat, go here.

Write access is trickier; it involves using the above driver to mount your NTFS drive, use another program to copy the Microsoft driver to RAM, unmount the NTFS and remount it using the 'real' driver. The site for this tool is here

EDIT: You might want to try out Knoppix if you're just messing around with stuff, it boots off a CD and makes no changes to your HD (which means your home directory goes bye-bye).