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04-22-2003, 08:47 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
Distribution: Slackware9
Posts: 81
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Slackware install help.
I'm installing slackware, after installing the software and configuring the network, it asks me to set a root password, but it gives me this error:
chroot: cannot execute /usr/bin/passwd: No such file or directory
(I checked the MD5sums)
How do i go about setting the root password during install?
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04-22-2003, 10:17 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Distribution: Gentoo / NetBSD
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find out where passwd is on your system... its gotta be somewhere... check /usr, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc. then use it to set the root password manually then continue with the setup. I've had to do something similiar for the swap setup... during setup it would hang so I'd ctrl-c it, then mkswap and swapon it myself... rerun the setup and it was fine.
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