Setting Up a TFTP Server

Purpose

The purpose of this page is to contain information on how to setup a TFTP server on Linux. This is useful for downloading Linux kernel images to the target board during development.

Using Ubuntu

There are multiple options for TFTP servers in Ubuntu, below are two possibilities atftp and tftpd-hpa.

Using atftp in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

To setup atftp on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, you can follow these steps:

Install atftp Server in Ubuntu

host $ sudo aptitude install atftpd
This will complete the installation