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Hello, again.
Thank you to the people who tried to help. I
realize and did when I wrote, that I furnished litle data. What I gave you
was what the system gave me. I have managed to get X back up so that I can
respond, or in most cases ignore.
I did not disparage Debian, in fact if I didn't
like it, I wouldn't use it.
I have installed it years ago on a desktop machine
and lost it when the drive died. Complications have prevented me from
trying it until recently. I have not posred exact scripts of error
messages because I can not yet connect using Debian. I have been a
professional programmer - FORTRAN, COBOL, a few different forms of Basic,
Algol, three different assemblers and one machine language - so playing with
computer apps until they work is not new to me.
However, when I run pppconfig and it sets up files
that I have to change, most notably so far the /etc/ppp/peers/provider file, to
make it fail less badly, I think there3 is something very wrong.
I have also been sent to files that did not
exist. The path was broken and find could not find them.
None of the solutions I found in the books I have
or the books from the library worked. Remember that I could not access the
web - one of the reasons that I have not responded until now. I finally to
got the XP re-install to work by doing some tricks with cfdisk.
These are not the only operating systems I've ever
had to fool with. MASTER on a Control Data 6600 comes to
mind.
Will I succeed? Yes. The better the
help I get the sooner I will succeed. The more emotional responses I get -
you call them flames, I call them flame-outs because they leave me cold - the
more I will ignore.
3.1 should be here soon. Failing that the
compiler works. One way or another I will get it running.
Thanks again to all who offered
assistance.
Shane
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