net ELF software won't run?

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From: Alan Finlay
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 00:00

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I have an old Linux installed (slackware), the kernel is version 1.0.8 .
Recently I decided to try out the network software and got the "n" series
slackware disks.  After installation, none of the inet sofware seems to work.
All I get is "bash: /sbin/ifconfig: File not found" or similar messages
for all the inet commands.  On investigation I find that all these binaries
are identified by "file" as ELF binaries.  The files seem ok, I just can't
execute any ELF binaries at all.  I have tried recompiling the 1.0.8 kernel
so I know ELF binaries are enabled.

I guess I am missing some kind of ELF interpreter???
Is it that the "n" series I got is for a later slackware distribution and
I need to reinstall the "a" or "d" series for this later version as well?
Is there any documentation anywhere about ELF?

N.B. I am quite happy with kernel 1.0.8 and don't want to upgrade if I can
avoid it.

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