Thank you for the quick response. After trying to run that command again, I realized that it was not completing successfully, so I ran it piece by piece. the results are below (please excuse the formatting as I am sitting at a different XP desktop). Notice that the results of the 3rd command are not complete. When executing them one at a time, the first 2 worked successfully, but the 3rd just hung after a couple of seconds and didn't do anything else. The text pasted below was the only thing in the file when it froze:

+ cat /proc/cmdline
ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=normal atapicd nosound noapic noacpi pnpbios=off acpi=off nofstab noscsi nodma noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=minirt.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux 3


+ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

3 0 19535040 hda
240 0 1942016 cloop0

+ fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd /dev/hde /dev/hdf /dev/hdg /dev/hdh