I want to set up an ftp server and an webserver for moderate use. I want to know of any good software and where it is located? Also, i have a 60 gig ftp server running off my Win ME machine. Is it possible to put that HDD in the linux box i have now and share that HDD using the linux software? Or will the file formats be all wrong? any help is thanked in advance.

yes it's ok to put the windows me hdd in linux.

some ftp programs that I can think of: vsftp, proftp, you can find more from freshmeat.net

Unlike the MS Windows world basically everything *comes with* a RedHat Linux distro. If you have RH8 CDs you already have Apache web server (as well as others) and wu-ftp (as well as others). Downloading and installing an app is a bit less common, it's already there.. Perhaps already installed depending on the installation options you chose.

If you formatted the ME drive FAT it should be readable/writable via linux. Boot Linux with it attached and do "dmesg | grep hd" looking for an hda hdb hdc or something like that which is the drive in question. Then "mount -t vfat /dev/hdX /dos" or something other than /dos which needs to be a subdirectory that already exists (mkdir /dos). Add it to /etc/fstab to make mounting it permanent on boot.

Yes very true about the software. Thank you guys for the help. Is apache hard to run, i think i remeber it being all INI files and such, does red hat come with a GUI? And i am still trying to learn the files system in linux so when i do, i think i will be able to understand the mounting and adding the new hdd, but thank you all very much again.