slackware linux root disk problem
 

Hello to all. Well I want to install on my PC Slackware 7.1. I've done the needfull installation disks by rowwrite (I mean boot/root). Try to load from floppy by boot disk. All going fine (kernel detected all my hardware) and it's asking to put the root disk into drive.
I put another (root) disk and hit Enter, then again and again 3d time. And after this in result I see something like this (I can't to recall how exectly): can't opening library "bla-bla-bla". I've tryed "color", "text" with the same result. I have the NTFS formatted disk and maybe thats the root of my problem???
Can someone help here??
Best regards!

Re: slackware linux root disk problem
 

Heh, in the first place, try to use Slackware 9.0 which can be obtained from www.slackware.com/getslack

This is mostly a bootable image ....(boot from cd-rom)

Well, I wanna sretup my system by some parts and do it "by hands" to contol whole installation process. 7.1 is the last version that giving this possibility. And I try to recall the messege:

init: error opening shared library: can't load shared file: libc.so.6: no such file or directory


What does it mean?

It means that you are missing a shared file. Try to locate it with: locate libc.so.6
Did you ever see Gentoo? This distribution can be build up from scratch ....and is most of the time "up-to-date" software...