Problem Booting Slax

[makthegr8]

Hi sir,

I have booted Hirenminixp successfully

Now I tried to boot slax, download plugin and configure it,

But Error occurred while booting that " Fatal Error Occured - can't find executable chroot command, somthing went wrong and we cant continue "

Pls help

[RaveMaker]

This error means you can't access the 'tftpboot/er/shares/slax/slax' folder.

Slax uses HTTP access to access the '/shares/slax/slax/' so just open a web browser and check this url:

"http://IPADDRESS-OF-TFTP-HTTP-Server/er/slax/"

Can you access this address?

If not then this is your issue probably a Web Server Config issue.

If you can access this url and you can see: /slax/,filelist.txt then there is probably a NIC driver issue with your client, try booting with VMware/VirtualBox in order to check it with a standard NIC.

[makthegr8]

Sir,

it is not able to browse

Did you mean it needs to create another virtual directory under er (Virtual directory created on iis ) which points to tftpboot\er\shares\slax\slax

[RaveMaker]

If you are using Apache as your web server then all you have to do is create a link:

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ln -s /tftpboot/er/shares /var/www/html/er

Assuming your root directory is '/var/www/html/' (CentOS default)
We have been using CentOS 5-6 with default 'httpd.conf' and it is working without issues.

If you are using IIS then it is just as simple,
just create a virtual directory called 'er' mapped to 'tftpboot/er/shares/'

Final result should be the same:
"http://IPADDRESS/er/slax/"

Now you should be able to see your shares list here:
"http://IPADDRESS/er/"

[makthegr8]

sir,

I did the same,

I am using IIS ( Windows XP SP3 ) & able to browse "http://192.168.0.1/er/slax/" on browser
but still same problem..

Pls help !!

[RaveMaker]

In your 192.168.0.1/er/slax/ you shold have another slax folder:
"192.168.0.1/er/slax/slax/"
And there you should have all the Slax files.

Also did you change the IP address in tftpboot/er/plugins/slax/slaxmain.menu?

[makthegr8]

Sir,

All the slax files are there in Slax folder

and also did the changes in slaxmain.menu file according my ip

but same problem

[RaveMaker]

Sounds like your environment is working correctly , perhaps there is an issue with you NIC.

First of all use filelist.txt supplied with slax plugin to verify the location of your Slax files.

Try booting from VirtualBox Using a standard NIC, if it won't work then there is an issue with your environment,
if it does work then Slax does not support you NIC by default.

I will setup ERPXE in our test environment using XP SP3 and IIS and verify the Slax plugin support.
Perhaps there are changes needed to be done (possible but not likely).