Not able to set root password upon installation of Slackware 11
 

Just installed Slackware 11.0 and it didn't give the option of setting a root password. Reinstalled completely and no root user found. How can this be resolved.

It should ask you during the installation. You are saying it didn't?

actually we were installing it with the xwindows and it didn't ask...we reinstalled with the xwindows and everything worked fine

Well I don't use Slackware so I may don't know what exactly happened, but here is how you can set your root password:
1. Boot from a Live CD
2. mount your Linux installation to some directory (say /mnt/temp/ )
3. chroot /mnt/temp /bin/bash
4. passwd

exit and reboot into the linux partition.

Otherwise, if you have 'sudo' access:
1. sudo su
2. passwd