From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: "Sarnath Kannan" <sparc64@rediffmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: DINK - the downloader !
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:17:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011122131718.999A6F9BA@denx.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 Nov 2001 12:21:32 GMT." <20011122122132.18969.qmail@mailweb26.rediffmail.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-22 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-22 12:21 DINK - the downloader ! Sarnath Kannan
2001-11-22 13:17 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2001-11-22 17:19 ` Re[2]: " Ricardo Scop
2001-11-24 2:28 ` cross-compiling libraries Kevin Fry
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2001-11-26 16:04 DINK - the downloader ! Prasad, Siva
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