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Just a reminder, you can't telnet as root, if your trying that, you have to telnet in as a regular user account. Also, if its over the net or anything, might want to use SSH.
If you dont have anything in /etc it seems like you have a lot of stuff not installed that you need or you are doing something wrong. ls -la sould list quite a bit of stuff in /etc/ (this is where 90% of the configuration files for Red Hat and other programs reside)
Also I recommend using SSH for remote access!
Take a look at it: http://www.ssh.com
When you installed RH 6.2, did you install everything? Or did you install like a minimum or custom? If you installed everything, telnet is already installed. Are you trying to telent into your machine or out of your machine?
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