Hello everybody. Excellent site, tons of good info and friendly people makes for good reading while at work

Here's ONE of my problems that I've been unable to figure out or find support on. There is more but I'll mess with it before bothering you folks more.

I have winxp and redhat9 on a dual boot maxtor 80gb SATA drive (that was a pain in the in and of itself) I can choose which OS i want no problem with Grub (like it so far as compared to LILO.) I installed KDE but chose to have it boot into terminal instead of gui after messing around with GNOME on a different RH9 install on a different computer. So I decided, "I'm a nub so I want a gui". Hence, I editted my '/etc/inittab' file and changed 'initdefault:3' to 'initdefault:5' I THINK that it didn't save properly (side note, how do you save and exit with VIM?? I tried 'pico' but it wasn't found) because when the computer starts up it hangs when it's starting the init level. I think that when I erased the 3 it stayed EMPTY (i.e. 'initdefault::' instead of 'initdefault:5:') How do I attepmt to edit that file?

I have nothing showing up when I run ifconfig just 'lo'. I don't have an 'eth0' and I think the reason is I have a DFI LANPARTY ULTRA INFINITY mb. It's an nforce2 motherboard with integrated LAN & AUDIO. Audio I will worry about later I'm trying to get my network connection working so I can start updating, patching, etc etc. I downloaded the drivers onto my XP partition. but when I (attempt to) mount the ntfs drive it says not supported. I probably need to recompile the kernel but I can't do that cause I can't download it and I can't download it cause i have no internet because I can't get drivers from my other partition!!!! SO any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

I'm not at home so when I get there I'll post the exact error messages, just wanted to get this posted to see if I'm just seriously overlooking something.

ZZ is save and exit, or :wq in vim. Check my bookmarks if you want information on my vi commands.

As far as those other issues go, you need the nforce drivers from nvidia, or a 2.6 kernel to get that stuff working I believe, but I am not an expert on that kind of stuff since I don't own any of it.

Ok, I'm able to get into the gui now and I realized I can at least use the existing kernel to recompile it. I'm running into some problems with THAT but at least I know what I need to do. The default RH config file does not compile support for NTFS So once I compile that in, I can mount my XP partition and get the nvidia drivers from there which will (hopefully) allow me to then get on the internet and get the NEW kernel, etc.