xNix jBoss CF8 pain

Anyone successfully deployed CF8 with jBoss? I spent part of the weekend trying a few installs, but I couldn't get even near... note that I'm a Windows guy, I don't even know where to start with Linux ... so I downloaded a Centos 5 VM image, ready to go ... I cheated and installed the GUI (yum groupinstall "X Window" "GNOME Desktop Environment" ... of course, it's because I was running a local development VM, not a production environment .... so performance is not that critical... after that, I installed mySQL, PostgreSQL, Java SDK 5.0.... everything went through smoothly ... Then jboss.... how the heck do you install that? I found on some blogs that people installed it on FC4 and FC5 with "yum install jboss4-all", but that didn't fly with Centos ... I'm not sure if it's because I need to change the servers there yum points to... so I downloaded the files from the jboss.org site... initially I downloaded the latest build, or perhaps, the latest source file, just to find out I have no idea what to do with it ... so I downloaded a previous build JAR installer... ditto, couldn't run it with Java ... ok, so I downloaded a tar.gz... The office site says that it requires no install, just go to the bin folder and execute run.sh ... but that through like 1000 errors... ok, so I gave up on Centos.
I downloaded j2easy, which is a pre-build FC5, Apache, mySQL, PostGre, Jboss4, mod_proxy, ready to rock ... and indeed, it ran fine, but once again I had no idea how to continue from there... I got the cf8-lin.bin file from Adobe .... and .....

I give up... so much for trying to go linux, maybe next month ... I'm sticking with Windows, JRun, and CF8 multi-server deployment. The entire idea was to try to go open source stack, but I can do that with the db alone to save some money ... Linux with PostgreSQL Vs. Windows with SQL Server 2005... that I have running w/o a problem.

Anyone out there can shed the light on a xNis jBoss CF8 install?