Help Me Please

Please nairalander need some lifeline on installation issues on windows xp and linux. I just reformatted my hard drive and after all basic installation i wanted 2 load d sound and vga driver and nero but it freezes, hang and shut down explorer until i eject d cd or do all kind of rubbish and my rewritter make a cracking noise any time i tried running these softwares and all other software works  except nero and mainboard driver and all these had worked 4 bou
t 2 years.The board name is mecury with via samual c3 processor 800 mhz. Please how do i install AMORAK OR real player in linux redhat ver 9 one popular @ otigba please i intend 2 download one of these 2 to a flash drive because d only thing i use windows 4 is for mp3 which i can't do wit my linux please as there 2 player support video & mp3 please how do i go bout d only installation  urgent solution
needed please earthlings. 

Chxta whats up pal. Thanks for the site and your concern bout helping your fellow brother thanks man.The problem with main board  driver is with my cd rewritter which i bought new early last year is starting 2 mess up have been able 2 solve that. But the problem with linux still persist that is how 2 compile a downloaded program like Mplayer, AMORAK or realplayer in linux. I can across some stuffs like ./ configure make make install.  The distro is red hat ver. 9 any help i will appreciate. All those that have use red hat or have a red hat base distro come 2 my rescue am fed up of windows.