On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Sidney Brooks wrote:
 
> I recently had to replace my hard disk which meant reloading
> everything. I now have two problems.
> 1. Although I had no trouble with Word Perfect before, when I
> downloaded it again, I could not use it because it can't locate libX..
> . I had this trouble with netscape originally, but the problem was
> solved by using the glibc version. There is no glibc version for Word
> Perfect.

Sounds like you might need a depricated compatability library.  There are
lots of these that are X-related.

> 2. As long as I had to reload Debian, I decided to enable LILO although
> I used a boot floppy before. When I boot with LILO, ppp doesn't work,
> and I get a message saying that the ppp module is not loaded. When I
> boot with my floppy, ppp works fine. I haven't been able to find a
> difference in files when I compare the results of loading with the
> floppy and LILO. Everything else seems to be the same whichever I boot.

Is ppp compiled into the kernel on your new disk?

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