Hi
You install packages on Read Hat using the RPM. Ofcourse compiling from source or installing a tarball is a posibility but a bit harder.
I found this link on google:
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/rpm.8.html but I bet there are a lot of information out there.
I guess for the partition sharing you might want to look into SMB if your Red Hat and Windows are on different hosts.
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samb...n/install.html
Someone else might have some better links but there is a ton of great guides around.