'Root login failed' and 'machine slow' and 'brain hurts'

[Marc M]

1. Welcome to Linux, don't berate yourself, you know more than you think.

2. These lists are great, the advice is great, you did the right thing which
is to ask AFTER you have done all you can on your end

3. Re: your particular partition scheme, it sounds as if Red Hat has done a
default installation. If that is the case, then yes, Red Hat/Fedora has
eradicated your windows partitions and created its own. There is no C: and
D: naming in Linux so your partitions will all have names like

/dev/hda physical hard drive a
/dev/hda1 partition on physical hard drive a

but it will also automatically create a swap partition for you (swapping
hard disk space for memory optimization purposes). Sometimes you can adjust
the swap to make things go faster, but in this case you might just wanna
reinstall and see if an increase makes a differrence. The usual rule of
thumb is 'twice the physical memory' so if you have say 512 MB you need to
put in 1000 MB or 1 GB.

4. Memory optimization is a BIG topic and may be too much to bite off right
now until you are more familiar with Linux. What are the specs of this
machine? Sounds like this is an older box - am I right? Although Red Hat
will load on older machines, having better hardware does make a big
differrence. Good luck and post any specific problems that you have and
we'll go from there.

Cheers,
Marc
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