I am performing netboot unattended installation using a local server. But during the installation, I received the below error:
Note: I am installing Ubuntu-18.04 (bionic) Desktop version.
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I have set up DHCP and TFTP servers to allow boot via network. My server is 192.168.10.50 and the client is 192.168.10.51
The client gives me this:
Searching for server (DHCP)...
Me: 192.168.10.51, DHCP: 192.168.10.50, TFTP: 192.168.10.50, GATEWAY: 192.168.10.50
Loading 192.168.10.50:pxelinux.0 ...(done)
...
TFTP prefix:
Unable to locate configuration file
Boot failed
On the server side, the syslog says:
testserver dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.10.51 to 52:54:00:28:90:f6 via eth1
testserver tftpd: trying to get file: pxelinux.0
testserver tftpd: serving file from /var/lib/tftpboot
testserver tftpd: trying to get file: pxelinux.cfg/default
testserver tftpd: serving file from /var/lib/tftpboot
If I do ls -l /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg, I get:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 23 11:59 default
i.e., the file exists and is readable. Can anyone tell me why the tftp client fails to boot?
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?
I have installed atftpd on Ubuntu 12.04, but it looks like I cannot start the tftp server, and there's a problem also with the tftpd daemon. With Ubuntu 11.10 there was no problem.
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atftpd (0.7.dfsg-11) wird eingerichtet ...
unknown protocol: udp4
With rlinetd, and also as daemon, it doesn't work.
with ps -afe I see no process.
/var/log/syslog says it cannot bind to ip address.
with option --bind-adress the atftpd server starts but also doesn't work.
In the world of Ubuntu, it seems you either always run an FTP server or you never do. Perhaps I'm the first network analyst who's needed to flash a Cisco, Checkpoint or Nokia image using Ubuntu... I need an FTP server for maybe 5 minutes, no more than that.
I'm looking for a bare-bones, user-initiated FTP server. I understand that it would likely have to run with sudo. That's fine - but I want to start/stop it like a normal program.
On the Windows platform, such tools are a dime a dozen - I've used 3CDaemon for years and recently found CoreFTP. Both are excellent. You configure a user, point it at a directory, then hit the "Start" button. A couple of minutes later, you're generally done and you hit the "Stop" button. Job done.
Such tools don't seem to exist on Ubuntu. I found a Google Code project that creates a TFTP instance reasonably nicely (assuming it still runs - I haven't used it in about a year and python has moved on), but how about FTP? Anything out there?