Newbie needing help

[M A L Wraight]

Sorry to bother you all, but I can't read anymore.

I am a complete newbie to Linux and trying to learn it on my own. Bought
"A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux", 2nd ed. Came with installation for 2.6 Kernel. I followed steps
except I used $linux selinux for install. Now I am having issues.

1. Can only sign on with the root account - other account "john" created fails

2. Signed in as root, I can't browse /home/john

3. Log in fine with KDE but Gnome crashes and freezes

4. up2date has lots of potential updates, but I have been unable to download or
install a single one.

I have reinstalled (since I couldn't get very far) but the same issues appear.
Any help would be appreciated.

Signed,

Aaron Wraight

Windows user trying Linux


		
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