"This is the point where I was lost. In Windows I am accustomed to such niceties as being able to right-click the new drive and formatting it from there. Not so with Linux,..."
Jake, you're talking like Red Hat is Linux. That's not so. I'm using SuSE 8.2 myself and it provides all the graphical tools you need to format partitions etc. I'm sorry you have to learn the hard way ;-)
"This is the point where I was lost. In Windows I am accustomed to such niceties as being able to right-click the new drive and formatting it from there. Not so with Linux,..."
Jake, you're talking like Red Hat is Linux. That's not so. I'm using SuSE 8.2 myself and it provides all the graphical tools you need to format partitions etc. I'm sorry you have to learn the hard way ;-)
Henk.