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

Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-23 Thread Lane Lester
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 correctl

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

Troubleshooting My PPP

2000-02-23 Thread Lane Lester
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 before each dialup, or only once for each