Comments on: Older Slackware versions (VI)

By: Niels Horn

Niels Horn — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:58:07 +0000

That sounds like a corrupted file system… You might try to fix it with fsck, but it might not be worth the trouble and reinstalling might be faster.

By: anschen

anschen — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:50:52 +0000

Hi,
I’m installing Slackware 1.01 on VMware. have one problem when first boot, it says,
“ext2_find_entry: bad directory entry (dev 0301, dir 2): rec_len % 4 != 0
offset=0, inode=726297974, rec_len=42761, name_len=59600″

By: Niels Horn

Niels Horn — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:47:59 +0000

If you really want to compile the old kernels, you will probably need an older version of a distribution, with an older version of the compiler etc., to build it on.
Slackware 1.2 started using the 1.0.0 Linux kernel, but it might compile on some versions before or shortly after that.

On newer Linux distributions you won’t be able to compile the older kernels, too many things have changed.

By: baxzius

baxzius — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:19:51 +0000

well i wanna compile the old linux versions like kernel 1.0.0
what should i do?
you know modern linuxes usually dont have gas…
please help me Neils horn

By: Niels Horn

Niels Horn — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:50:11 +0000

Hi,

1) If you check the a1 folder you’ll find a ready-to-boot disk image called ‘a1disk’. You don’t have to create this one
2) Should be solved using the image mentioned in 1)

Have fun!

By: sid

sid — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:03:13 +0000

Hi Neil,

Nice article thanks…

I have a couple of questions

1. a1 contents are of 3.2M but you instructed us to create 1.4M floppy image . Is that correct or am i missing something
2. When i try to boot with the above mentioned command it says floppy is not a bootable disk !

Thanks in advance

By: Niels Horn

Niels Horn — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:23:12 +0000

Hey, good catch! I am editing the typo right now

By: emha

emha — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:03:13 +0000

there’s an error, it’s actually ‘mke2fs’ not ‘mk2efs’ – i was so angry then i read install.info and boom

By: Niels Horn

Niels Horn — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:10:05 +0000

No, I don’t have the sources for these older versions… The oldest source I have for XFree86 is 2.1 and that’s from somewhere in 1994.

By: Jason Stevens

Jason Stevens — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:16:14 +0000

Wow, thats great! I’ve only done the text mode install of SLS, I never bothered with the X11 stuff… I always recall it being such a major pain…

Meanwhile I’ve been busy resurrecting 386BSD, and it seems all the xfree86-1.X releases are long gone… I don’t suppose you happen to have source..? It seems that I was able to find a

“XFree86 Version 1.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
VGA2 (monochrome VGA):”

Server so I guess my next best thing is to try to build X11R5 from source.. which thankfully is still around http://www.x.org/releases/X11R5/ …

Thanks again!