From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Sarnath Kannan" Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: DINK - the downloader ! From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "22 Nov 2001 12:21:32 GMT." <20011122122132.18969.qmail@mailweb26.rediffmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:17:13 +0100 Message-Id: <20011122131718.999A6F9BA@denx.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de You may call me by my name, Wirth, or by my value, Worth. - Nicklaus Wirth ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/