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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> BL3 does not have a lot of help on e2fsck 

man e2fsck

> part of busybox?

No.

> I have three computers of the same model with the same 
> problem in linux.

Probably needs a custom kernel.  There were a few old models 
that were not 100% compatible.  They needed a special parameter
for the kernel compile.

> > While trying to get the linux source code for 2.2.16 into 
> > /usr/src/ on my second computer 

Are you sure you left enough room for it?  When you install the
sourcecode it swells a lot in size.  Or perhaps you ran out of
inodes?

> Only half the source files got installed, even though I saw 
> the others go by on the list.  

Sounds like too little space or too few inodes.

> > THis computer is the one that used to not boot linux half 
> > the time (unless I booted from Win98 DOS or MS-DOS 6) but 
> > it now boots linux without any complaints until the fsck/inodes 
> > thing.  

Your erratic problems sound like hardware issues.  If I had as 
many computers as you do, I would ditch that one.

Cheers,
Steven