I just downloaded and installed RedHat 7.3 - I have found myself staring at a screen that says. localhost login. I logged in using Root and the password that I specified... But now what? I have no idea what to do and this is my first time using RedHat. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks,
- Gabe
gmatteson@cox.net

Cool, kick ass! I think this was my very first question as well.

Assuming during the install you configured X, and configured it correctly, you can now type startx, and it will start the gui.

You will definitely wanna read some tutorials, or a book or something, but startx will get you somewhere that might be somewhat familiar.

Check out the tutorial over at www.linux.org and also read ALOT of posts on this board, just go down the list in the newbie section and read. Read and read. Get a book, then read and read.

Enjoy your stay, and book mark this site for when you have questions. Use this to search:
www.google.com/linux AND/OR
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/search.php

You'll want to read some how-to's over at:
http://www.tldp.org/
As well.

Cool

Thanks, I'll see if it works
- Gabe

Plz don't. Make yourself a user first (w/o quotes):
"groupadd -g <groupname>"
"useradd -d /home/<username> -g <groupname> -m -s /bin/sh" <username>(type "man useradd" for more),
"passwd <username>" (and make it a good one)
Then log out of your root account, then log into the user account. Then start X.

The root account is too powerfull to use as a "regular" account, and that should be the first thing you learn.

Hope you'll have lotsa fun with your Linux box.

Doh! Absolutely UnSpawn, didn't catch that part of the post... Thanks for covering

Cool