DINK - the downloader !

DINK - the downloader !

[Sarnath Kannan]

Hi everybody,
 I am really impatient with the way DINK downloads
the kernel over the serial line..
 i just want to get rid of it..

Is it possible to download a "Ethernet boot"
utility thru which I can download the kernel
via ethernet card. Any such utilities for the
sandpoint platform are available.. ?
 Whats "tftp" and How do I set it up ?
(no RTFMs please...)

Any suggestion r pointer is most welcome,
Thank you

Sarnath


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Re: DINK - the downloader !

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Sarnath,

in message <20011122122132.18969.qmail@mailweb26.rediffmail.com> you wrote:
>
>  I am really impatient with the way DINK downloads
> the kernel over the serial line..
>  i just want to get rid of it..
>
> Is it possible to download a "Ethernet boot"
> utility thru which I can download the kernel
> via ethernet card. Any such utilities for the
> sandpoint platform are available.. ?

Use PPCBoot.

I'm not sure how good the Sandpoint support is  at  the  moment,  but
it's  there,  and  it compiles, and some people say they actually use
it.

>  Whats "tftp" and How do I set it up ?

Trivial File Transfer Protocol.

> (no RTFMs please...)

Ummm... but this _is_ a RFTM job.

Or ask your friendly network administrator :-)

Wolfgang Denk

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Re[2]: DINK - the downloader !

[Ricardo Scop]

Hello guys,

Thursday, November 22, 2001, 10:17:13 AM, you wrote:

WD> Dear Sarnath,

WD> in message <20011122122132.18969.qmail@mailweb26.rediffmail.com> you wrote:
>>
[snip]
>> via ethernet card. Any such utilities for the
>> sandpoint platform are available.. ?

WD> Use PPCBoot.

I second this :-)

WD> I'm not sure how good the Sandpoint support is  at  the  moment,  but
WD> it's  there,  and  it compiles, and some people say they actually use
WD> it.

>>  Whats "tftp" and How do I set it up ?

I think this is a fair question. When I bought my Abatron BDI2000, I
had a hard time setting up a TFTP server on my Linux host... it was
much easier to use the Windowze-based TFTP server that came along
with the Abatron firmware :-(

Fortunatelly, we have some local Linux gurus here at my job place. So,
basically, what has to be done, assuming a Linux host, is:

1 - Check if you're lucky: try locating in.tftpd in your bin
directories (mainly in /usr/sbin)

2 - If you don't have it, download it from the web; better download
both server and clients apps

3 - Install them (I have a Red Hat box, so installing rpm's is
straightforward for me :-)

4 - Now, the tough part: you'll have to manually configure inetd (or
worse, xinetd - depending on your system). I can put a copy of a
sample conf file here, if you need it...

HTH,

Ricardo Scop                            mailto:scop@digitel.com.br
R SCOP Consulting

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cross-compiling libraries

[Kevin Fry]

Okay this is probably a newbie, RTFM question, but if you could just point me in
the right direction, I'd
appreciate it.

I need to compile some 1394 libraries for my embedded 8260 board (HHL 2.0). These
are the libraw1394 libraries needed for Firewire.  They have a ./configure script
and everything, but if I tell the script --target=powerpc-linux I get 100's of
make errors.  I'm using the HHL2.0 cross compiler, maybe that needs something
extra to be done?

Any advice on manually cross compiling libraries?

I can include the ./configure file if it would help.

Thanks!

Kevin Fry
Carts llc


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