Removed glibc on Slackware Linux, how to rebuild it

[The#Gaelic]

I am running Linux Slackware 9.1! By mistake I have removed the glibc. Without this, the system is now useless. There is no way I can login into the computer and do anything. When I boot the system, I get the following messages:

INIT:no cannot execute "sbin/agetty"
INIT:no cannot execute "command/svscanboot"
INIT:no more processes left in this runlevel

There are 2 SCSI disk. I tried the Linux rescue but it shows me "Can't mount root". I too tried the slack live cd and it can only show me the partitions. Can anyone tell me how to fix this issue?

[intoxicating]

In order to rebuild the glibc, you will need original installation disk. Take the CD and get into the package directory where it has the and run the following command:

installpkg -reinstall glibc*tgz --root /mnt/whatever

Now this command will replace all files to the original state.

[Rawana]

If you look into the installation disk of Slackware, you will notice two glibc locations and they are as follows:

/slackware/a/glibc
or
/slackware/l/glib

So you need to find out which fine you have deleted from the computer and depending upon that you have to run the command to replace the file.

[Elijah*Blue]

It is really easy to get back the glibc package on your slackware linux. All you have to do is to copy the package from Slackware 9.1 CD/DVD to HDD and then chroot into the system suing below codes

# mount /dev/your-root-partition /mnt/
# chroot /mnt/
# installpkg $glibc-packagename

[Galbraith]

You can chroot into the Slackware-environment. For that you will need to mount Slackware / partition in the filesystem of your Live-CD and then use:

mount -t proc none /mnt/tmp/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/tmp/dev
chroot /mnt/tmp /bin/bash

If it executed, then you are in Slackware-environment and reinstall glibc package with installpkg from there. You can also execute the installpkg command from other path in live-CD.