FW: Newbie questions...(again since it looked like crap last time)...

[Wysong Richard C SrA 85 GP/CP <Richard Wysong keflavik af mil>]

I finally got red hat 6 going on my mustang (4/233) and I am wondering a few
things...

1.	First of all, it's slow...waaay slow (compared to NT anyway). Under
gnome I brought up a system info thing and it showed 97% mem usage (32 megs)
and the only thing up was the system info window. I'm assuming something is
amiss. (The dos partition and linux native partitions are both 2 gig and the
linux swap is 127M)

2.	Where is the kernel? In the boot selection I have:

	      OSLOADOPTIONS=boot sda5:generic.gz root=/dev/sda7

	Since I didn't know where it was, I put a generic.gz (same avanti as
from the cd) kernel I pulled off the net on my 10M partition where I have
the winnt boot stuff. I tried some stuff from /boot on sda7 and it didn't
seem to work.

3.	My ethernet card no worky.  I get a [FAILED] during boot for
'Bringing up interface eth0'. During installation, it seemed to recognize my
card just fine, so I have no idea what's wrong. I gave it an ip address and
it can't even ping itself. I need to get the nic working first, but I was
also wondering if there are any special precautions if I'm running
serverless (peer to peer).

p.s. - I am a major novice and a dos junkie at that...