I am the BLAG maintainer. I wish I had seen this earlier. For the folks googling, here's some info about BLAG and the issues discussed here.
BLAG mirrors the Linux Documentation Project. It is available at:
http://ldp.blagblagblag.org/
BLAG has a wiki for users to create topics and get info:
http://wiki.blagblagblag.org/
There is also a mailing list, info at:
http://www.blagblagblag.org/mailinglist/
BLAG has package managers, using both RPM and apt-get (with synaptic).
BLAG has multiple window managers: gnome, icewm, blackbox, and a handful of really micro ones. XFCE will be in the next release.
man pages are installed with BLAG. Most of them are in /usr/share/man/man* You can run:
man fdisk
To get the fdisk manpage. There are more docs in /usr/share/doc
fdisk is `/sbin/fdisk` which is pretty much the standard. /sbin isn't in the users $PATH by default in redhat, so he couldn't run fdisk without putting /sbin before it. If you logged in as root, /sbin is in the $PATH and you can just run `fdisk`.
If the windoz partition you want to mount is partition one on primary master, run as user root:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
If it's the second partition on the primary master:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda2
Read "hda1" like this:
hd=hard drive
a=primary master
b=primary slave
c=secondary master
d=secondary slave
and "1" the first partition, "2" the second partition, etc. So if it was the 3rd partition on the secondary master it would be:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc3 /mnt
The /mnt directory can be any directory you want. Example:
mkdir /mnt/windoz
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windoz
BLAG works the exact same as RedHat here (and does in general).
I'm not sure about the network/sound issues, as I don't know what's going on there. If an exact error was posted, I would have something to work with.