Now about software footprint storage in flash

Hi! I just realized uploading of Stratix configuration into flash on Nios Stratix dev board. And now I think that it will be more usefull to upload new software not hardware image. So my question is what file I must upload to flash?

As I understand I must upload content of my_soft.flash file generated by NiosII IDE cause it contains a boot loader already added at beginning. So how i can convert it into raw binary file for uploading it into flash?

I found flash2dat utility, but i'm not sure about byte order in the *.dat file generated by it. (Problem of byte order discussed in http://www.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?a...17&t=729&st=15) (http://www.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?act=st&f=17&t=729&st=15))