How embarrassing! My PPP problems had nothing to do with PPP! They were caused by my ignorant use of lilo in booting my three Linux distributions. I'm not sure exactly what was going on, but I was having a kernel running a filesystem for which it was not designed.
After I edited lilo.conf correctly, I was able to get online with Mandrake immediately. The holdup with Debian is that lilo told me that Debian's boot partition was beyond cylinder 1024! I think I have some space closer to the beginning that I can use instead for the boot partition. My thought is to create the partition with Partition Magic (which I feel comfortable using), copy the contents of the present boot partition to the new one, and then edit lilo.conf to reflect the change. Does the above sound workable? How large does the boot partition need to be to hold things? -- Lane ---- Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA ---- Getting where I want to be with Linux...
