Connecting to net with Debian 3.0

I have a Toshiba Satelliite A30 laptop with a 40 Gig drive, half of which is given to Debian. I have used pppconfig to set up for connecting to the net as via "provider". After entering pon he plog listing says that the connect script failed but does not say where. Is there a

Debian and Win XP

I have a Toshiba Satellite A30 with Win XP installed. How do I resize the ntfs file system since fips will not work on it and the only ntfsresize I can find is set to run under Linux. Given that I need to know how to make a bootable Linux cdrom with ntfsresize on it. Some bright apple decised th