Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 77

3 Click Enable to make sure that the server is started and included in the boot
routines. No further action from your side is required to secure this. xinetd starts
tftpd at boot time.
4 Click Open Port in Firewall to open the appropriate port in the firewall running
on your machine. If there is no firewall running on your server, this option is not
available.
5 Click Browse to browse for the boot image directory. The default directory
/tftpboot is created and selected automatically.
6 Click Finish to apply your settings and start the server.
Setting Up a TFTP Server Manually
1 Log in as root and install the packages tftp and xinetd.
2 If unavailable, create /srv/tftpboot and /srv/tftpboot/pxelinux
.cfg directories.
3 Add the appropriate files needed for the boot image as described in
"Using PXE Boot"
4 Modify the configuration of xinetd located under /etc/xinetd.d/ to make
sure that the TFTP server is started on boot:
4a If it does not exist, create a file called tftp under this directory with touch
tftp. Then run chmod 755 tftp.
4b Open the file tftp and add the following lines:
service tftp
{
socket_type
protocol
wait
user
server
server_args
disable
}
(page 62).
= dgram
= udp
= yes
= root
= /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
= -s /srv/tftpboot
= no
Section 4.3.3,
Remote Installation 61