On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 04:38:56PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote: > This is a first for me! As you may have noted from earlier postings, I > have been working on a source build process for distribution construction. > During the build of one of the source packages, the system "went away". What kernel version were you using? It's possible that you hit some sort of ext2 corruption completely unrelated to what you were doing at the time. Ben