DHCPD and PXE Server

[KingX]

Edit: Nevermind.. I am past this step, now tftpboot can't find the files lol. The error was I specified the wrong range for dynamic-bootp.

Hey guys,

Trying to install slackware on a laptop through a PXE server. I think I have most of the stuff right except the dhcpd.conf settings, which seem to be a bit off. I not very good with networking so would really appreciate if someone can take a look and point out what I have wrong .

I have got 2 pc's connected via a router(192.1681.1), and one of them is running the PXE Server (192.168.1.145). I get this error from dhcpd

slackhost dhcpd: bad range, address 192.168.1.140 not in subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0

Another bit I am unsure about is "option domain-name".. I don't have a domain setup on my internal network, so can this be blank or do I need to specify a domain?

# dhcpd.conf
#
# Configuration file for ISC dhcpd (see 'man dhcpd.conf')
#
# dhcpd.conf
#
# Configuration file for ISC dhcpd
#

# If this DHCP server is the official DHCP server for the local
# network, the authoritative directive should be uncommented.
authoritative;
ddns-update-style none;

# Allow bootp requests
allow bootp;

# Point to the TFTP server:
next-server 192.168.1.145;

# Default lease is 1 week (604800 sec.)
default-lease-time 604800;
# Max lease is 4 weeks (2419200 sec.)
max-lease-time 2419200;

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
    option domain-name "";
    option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
    option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
    option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
    option routers 192.168.1.1;
    range dynamic-bootp 192.168.1.140 192.168.1.150;
    use-host-decl-names on;
    if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient" {
      filename "/tftpboot/slackware-12.2/pxelinux.0";
    }
}

[KingX]

So I figured out my PXE Server and have successfully installed Slackware64 current on my laptop. One minor thing that I overlooked was that you don't specify the root directory of tftpboot in the filename path. You specify that elsewhere, so simply my dhcpd.conf file needed to look like this

 filename "slackware-12.2/pxelinux.0";

Hope this helps out anyone else who might be trying to setup a PXE server .