[pocket-linux] /lib/i686/libc.so.6 question

[McKibben, Rob]

Your Pocket Linux How-To is GREAT!  thank you!
I am using this as a self directed training class and it has been extremely
helpful.
I followed all the steps through Chapter 6 without any problems (excluding
typos, and once I made it through makeing the kernel).  
However, at the conclusion of Chapter 6 my zipped Root file was too big for
the floppy.
So, I went to the web page and downloaded your Chapter 6 image and started
from there.  (I had to figure out how to make ~/staging on my hard drive
look like the image on the floppy, but because I went through all the steps
in your How-to, I understood - finally - what was going on, and I was able
to reverse engineer the process.)
Boot disk and "Chapter 6" Root disk and hard drive ~/staging now working
just fine.  On to Chapter 7.
Stepped through all the steps (including adding /lib/libcrypt and
libnss_files) (and, like Santa - double checked all the lists/typing), dd'd
image to Root, and rebooted.
login: root
password: <enter>
incorrect password, or some such ugly message, 
dead in the water, 
big blue switch
Nosing around; ldd login (or maybe it was passwd) says it needs library
/lib/i686/libc.so.6. (note: "i686")  I have /lib/libc.so.6  (note: no
"i686").
Tried several variations of ln -s /lib/i686/libc.so.6  /lib/libc.so.6 but
the system did not like any of the variations.  I got either; file exists or
file does not exist.
Is i686 the problem here, and, if so, what's the trick, or is it something
else?
Thanks,
Rob




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