[SOLVED] Slackware 13.1 PXE setup docs error

astrogeek · 08-16-2010, 02:21 AM

I set up a new Slackware 13.1 (32 bit) PXE server today using the documentation found in...

Code:

.../usb-and-pxe-installers/README_PXE.TXT

...and my own notes from previous PXE setups with Slackware 12.1.

Everything worked as expected, except that the path to the pxelinux.0 file is not correct in the docs, which say...

Code:

  cp /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /tftpboot/slackware-13.0/

... but the actual path in the installed tree is:

Code:

  /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0

Minor error but I thought it worth posting in case anyone else bumps into it.

And thanks to Eric for the excellent instructions!

archtoad6 · 10-25-2010, 07:22 AM

Thanks for the tip.

Alien Bob · 10-25-2010, 03:20 PM

This error in the README_PXE.TXT was fixed in slackware-current some time ago. I had submitted the updated README to Pat Volkerding before the release of Slackware 13.1 but he overlooked it in his mailbox.

Eric

archtoad6 · 10-26-2010, 03:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by archtoad6

Thanks for the tip.

... & for the update.

DonnieP · 11-21-2010, 11:29 AM

I tried this out today and had to make the following change in the dhcpd.conf to get it to work (using 13.1):

Code:

filename "slackware-13.1/pxelinux.0"

instead of

Code:

filename "/slackware-13.1/pxelinux.0"

Also (being, as the README says, one who doesn't know what he's doing) I had to touch /var/state/dhcp/dhcpd.leases to get the daemon going.