what is a "command interpreter"?

gfc · 04-29-2005, 03:33 PM

i installed slackware 10.1 on my gateway. and it comes up with this command prompt after it showes me my pci bus #s and the command prompt says"type the name of the command interpreter. what does this mean and how can i fix it.

Komakino · 04-29-2005, 03:47 PM

The command interpreter is the shell (bash/csh/tsch/ash/zsh...etc) but it's not usually called the command interpreter in linux, that's more a windows thing (though I may be wrong about that).

Can you give us more details? What else is on screen?

gfc · 05-02-2005, 03:35 PM

it shows the status of the pci device listing...(the rest of this is in a table and in order from left 2 right), bus no.,device no., function no., vendor id,device id,device class, irq. it also comes up with an error;"media test failure",then tries 2 start windows 98 and goes 2 the command interpreter that i previously wrote about. please help (lol)

Komakino · 05-02-2005, 03:57 PM

If it tries to start windows 98 then the command interpreter it's trying to start is probably command.com, the windows interpreter. Failed media possibly means faulty hardware (hard disk) or a failed install if you can't get into slackware. Possibly try installing again?