Trouble in Linux (Red Hat Linux 9)?

i just install the Linux for experiment (i always us windows OS).


So it is my first experience ,but iam fail such as


1.In C: drive win 98 installed %26amp; in d: drive win xp installed %26amp; E: ,F: drive where i save the my data (Total disk space 30 GB) %26amp; free space in E: drive is 6 GB,so i decided installed Linux in this portion ,but after install the LINUX on my PC ,all patition in the harddisk distroy ,i lost my all data,i dont know what happen.





2. I amazed when my PC connected to my LAN without any setting of the ip address etc etc .





3.I amazed when i try to play media file (mp3,avi,rm... etc etc),but i failed then what reasion behind this





4.when i try to install the adobe photoshop then follwing meassage show:


*Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying "/mnt/cdrom/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/Setup.exe".


after this i try to install any software or try to run the setup.exe file


then above message show.


Does Linux difficult?





HOW CAN I INSTALL THE SOFTWAREZ IN LINUX?

Trouble in Linux (Red Hat Linux 9)?
1. You can not install windows executables (.exe files) on a Linux machine without using a windows emulator like wine.





2. You need to install a media player capable of handling your media files (mpg123 and mplayer should suffice). You may have to compile the source code as explained in the README file included with the packages.





3. Linux is a very network smart system so you will have to do very little network configuration. It knows how to put itself online as soon as you hook the network jack into the back.





4. I do not know how you installed your Linux but it looked like you may have removed all of your partitions when installing. Cant help you there if you did.





Wine, mpg123, and mplayer usually come with your distribution. If not search them online and download them.





You can see if it is installed on your system by bringing up the terminal (this is like a dos prompt) and typing in





man "executable name" to see if the instructions are there.





i.e. man mpg123 to see if it is installed. (type the letter q to exit the help file).





Hope that gets you started.





RJ
Reply:SO YOU HAVE A 30 GB DISK WITH 4 PARTITIONS??????


AND WHY DO U HAVE WINDOWS 98????!!!!!!


look my 320 GB only has 2 partitions....i suggest u completely format the disk and just put windows xp on one partition and linux on the other

geranium