Wrong information on Nios Wiki

Also realize that the wiki contradicts itself in at least one place.

http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/installnios2linux (http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/installnios2linux)

refers to both 20090929 and 20090730. I had luck with 20090730.

For your first boot, once you have the toolchain (I used the prebuilt toolchain), then follow the instructions at

http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/uclinuxdist (http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/uclinuxdist).

for me it was:

untar

cd nios2-linux

./checkout

cd uClinux-dist

make menuconfig

select only the "default all options (lose changes)

make vendor_hwselect SYSPTF=/absolute/path/to/.ptf

make

David