[olug] command not found

[mesc]

I just tried that and it didn't work,it sounded right though.Oh I forgot to
mention in my first post that cd got me this error>bash:cd:OLDPWD not set....I
hope this helps.

            Thank you,Gary Martin

"Chad S. Lauritsen" wrote:

> sounds like your $PATH environment variable got removed. Try
>
> export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:
>
> To restore it to some of the most popular places for execuatables. Not
> sure why it would have been changed, but try that to see if it helps.
>
> mesc wrote:
> >
> > I was already running mandrake 7.0 and I decided to try debian potato on
> > the other half of my hard drive,The install went smoothly but this
> > morning when I booted up mandrake immediately upon logging in I was
> > greeted with this>>
> > bash:id:command not found
> > bash:dircolors:command not found
> > bash:tty:command not found
> > bash:mesg:command not found
> > I also got command not found after most every command I tried like less
> > and startx.I could however cd to my home dir but the shell change from a
> > bash shell to a [@omhan1 ~] shell by itself (I don't know what the name
> > of that shell is called so I just typed out it's prompt) I also checked
> > my .bash_history and just the commands I tried since booting up were in
> > it,no others.
> >     Mandrake and debian share a swap space because I didn't see during
> > the debian  install how to give debian it's own swap space,was that a
> > bad idea and is there a way to give debian it's own swap space?
> >     I'm getting off the initial subject here,is there a way to fix my
> > command not found problem?
> >
> >         Thank you,Gary Martin
> >
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