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Post April 29th, 2005, 1:00 pm

i jus installed linux slackware on my comp. partioned the hd's and nowi comes up with a message asking me 2 please "type the name of the command interpreter". please help
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Post April 29th, 2005, 1:00 pm

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Post April 29th, 2005, 1:19 pm

i recently installed slackware on my gateway. and thought i destroyed windoiws 98.but it comes up with a message after it shows your pci bus #'s that says "type the name of the command interpreter" wat does this mean and or how do i fix it?
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Post April 29th, 2005, 1:46 pm

Try typing command.com
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Post April 29th, 2005, 5:59 pm

that sounds to me as though your slackware installation has gone wrong and windows is damaged, reinstall if it fails again try a different distro, slackware isn't one for beginners.
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Post April 29th, 2005, 8:00 pm

See http://www.easydesksoftware.com/news/news11.htm

Did you defrag before partitioning?

And somebody please merge this thread with the other one.
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Post April 29th, 2005, 9:10 pm

//Merged, moved to Linux forum.
Strong with this one, the sudo is.
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Post May 2nd, 2005, 1:13 pm

i tried 2 type in command.com, i went 2 http://www.easydesksoftware.com/news/news11.htm. and i still dosen't accept it. it wont change when i typed in those commands. it still says exactly:

"Type the name of the command interpreter (e.g., :\windows\command.com)
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please help me(lol)
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Post May 2nd, 2005, 1:28 pm

You are missing one or more of your boot files, mainly COMMAND.COM

Boot from a Windows 98 floppy boot disk and type "SYS A:\ C:" to correct it.
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Post May 4th, 2005, 1:02 pm

i will reinstall it as soon as i get the boot disk from my bud.

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