Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-25 Thread Brad
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:27:15PM -0500, Lane Lester wrote: > > But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition > below 1024 cyl. On my system, i have /, /bin, /boot, /dev, /etc, /lib, /root, and /sbin all on one 80M partition (of which only 22M is used). Since it's that

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-24 Thread aphro
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: lleste >But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition lleste >below 1024 cyl. i use a 16MB /boot partition at the beginning of the drive. works good. probably could get away with less (~5MB) but disk space is so cheap now might b

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-24 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:27, Lane Lester wrote: > > > > But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition > > below 1024 cyl. > > I've routinely made a 32MB /boot for years, but noticed that I never > came close to using that sp

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-24 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:27, Lane Lester wrote: > > But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition > below 1024 cyl. I've routinely made a 32MB /boot for years, but noticed that I never came close to using that space, so I've recently started making them 8MB. Of course

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-24 Thread Lane Lester
> If you really wanted to get cute, maybe you could have just one > lilo.conf: symlink /etc/lilo.conf to point to /boot/lilo.conf. Does > anyone else do this, or are there problems with this I haven't thought > out? Well, that's what I have: just the one Corel lilo.conf. I installed the other tw

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Lane Lester wrote: > > 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. Pro

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Lane Lester wrote: > > I tried the command George Bonser suggested: > echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps > but that had no effect. > > He also suggested turning off all ppp header compression, but I could > not find where that is specified. > > Does the /etc/ppp/options file get read befo