Hey all. I just installed Red Hat 9.0 on my pc, but I can't get it to recognize the ethernet device. Using my windows internet connection, I found an rpm that I want to try and install. My question is: Is it possible to download this while in windows and then save it to disk or something and retrieve it in Linux?

Another option that I have is to use a Linux box on campus to download the rpm, save it to floppy and then bring it home, but I won't be able to get to the machine on campus until next wednesday, and I was hoping to get my Linux box at home on the net this weekend...

Thanks for any help

You should be fine downloading the RPM file in Windows. Lord knows I did enough of that at University - download all sorts of *rap from the internet (why use my 'phone bill when I can use their connection for free?), plonk it on a Zip disk and take it home to my nice Linux box.

Other types of file, however, may need a little more playing. Script files, for example, may be converted to a Windows style text file rather than staying a Unix style text file. RPM should cause no problems though.

Just as a matter of course, what NIC is it?

As long as Linux recognizes windows, you should have no problem reading and writing files to the windows partition.

download the file in windows.boot into linux.make a directory like
/mnt/windows like 'md /mnt/windows'.now use 'fdisk -l (may be /sbin/fdisk -l)' to see all the partition.Identify the windows partition you want to mount.let it be /dev/hda1
now,use the mount command to mount this partition like,
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows (assuminf it is not ntfs)
now you can access this windows partition.

arunshivanandan-

Thanks for the info on mounting windows partitions. That will help big time.

Thymox-

It's a built in LAN on my motherboard (Asus A7N266-VM). I've seen quite a few people that have had problems with these motherboards and Linux...

Thanks again guys

Infact i am having the same mobo.though i am yet to try configuring the net from it.