I have an embedded VxWorks target that needs to boot its kernel from my Ubuntu computer. How do I install and run a TFTP server?
Install following packages.
sudo apt-get install xinetd tftpd tftp
Create /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and put this entry
service tftp
{
protocol = udp
port = 69
socket_type = dgram
wait = yes
user = nobody
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = /tftpboot
disable = no
}
Create a folder /tftpboot this should match whatever you gave in server_args. mostly it will be tftpboot
sudo mkdir /tftpboot
sudo chmod -R 777 /tftpboot
sudo chown -R nobody /tftpboot
Restart the xinetd service.
newer systems:
sudo service xinetd restart
older systems:
sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
Now our tftp server is up and running.
Create a file named test with some content in /tftpboot path of the tftp server
Obtain the ip address of the tftp server using ifconfig command
Now in some other system follow the following steps.
tftp 192.168.1.2
tftp> get test
Sent 159 bytes in 0.0 seconds
tftp> quit
cat test
Source:
http://mohammadthalif.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/installing-and-testing-tftpd-in-ubuntudebian/
