uclinux_on_NiosII

Hi,

I am a beginner for linux os and want to port uClinux on my board.

The available hardware on my board is EP3C120F484C7 Cyclone Fpga,256MB SDRAM, EPCS64 Serial flash.

According to the altera wiki , minimum hardware requirements to run uclinux are Nios II f/s core, SDRAM(minimum requirement 8MB), 4MB FLASH.

In my board, Extra 4MB space in serial flash can be used for storing the Image and sdram to run the program.

If I am not mistaken from the above concept point of view, I fulfill the hardware requirements.

Coming to uClinux os implementation, I am facing hurdles.

I am following the below steps to implement uclinux os in my board.

1. I am using Colinux for linux environment on windows pc.

2. Downloaded all required files and installed colinux.

3. Login as root user(administrator) and installed the nios2gcc tools in the root directory.

4. I downloaded Nios2-linux-20100621.tar and untar the file

5. The directories with out files extracted.

The instructions says "./checkout" command must be given to check out he source.

I do not have prior knowledge on version control system.

I do not have git software on my pc.

Pls advice me how to progress further. Pls advice me to proceed further.

Kind regards,

Nag.