The reason I was doing it is because a friend of my using raspberry pi
tried it and didnt get anything so I tried it.
Oddly, I didnt either.
After last night I rebooted my computer and it worked this morning.
And just so you know, the only thing I did was hit the up arrow after
starting the command line from last night
to show me the last command entered - and it worked.
I think my hard drive is about at the end of its life. Its a older one and
Ive had various other issues with it in the past.