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Ranga,

The best thing to do (since you have RedHat) is probably to download the "rpm" packages
for XFree86.  You can probably get the latest from www.suse.com.

The rpm packages will have to be accessible from your linux system, so if you are downloading
them from win98, make sure to place them in a disk (or partition) which is readable from
linux as well.

Once you've downloaded the rpms, login to your linux system, then on a shell prompt type:
man rpm

This will give you the manual pages for the rpm command. This is the command that will
install the rpm packages that you have downloaded.  Have a look at the man page.  I also
recommend that, before you install the package for real, you do a "test" of the rpm command.
In the man page there will be a command line switch which you can turn on to cause the rpm
command to act as if installing the packages, but in reality, it does not.... This will allow you
to verify dependencies and some other stuff before you actually install things...

Good luck,
Jorge.

BTW, you will have to run the rpm command as root when you do the actual install!


Ranga <ranga@powerup.com.au> wrote in message news:37e76c0f@grissom...
> I've managed to install RH6.0 but not X.  My SiS 6326 doesn't seem to like
> it.  I need to know how to download and run Xfree86 3.3.5.  Apparently this
> fixes it for my video card.  What do i need to download (from binaries?) and
> how do i install the files.  I'm downloading them through my Windoze 98
> machine.
>
> Regards
> Ranga
>
>