Hi, I would be grateful if someone could guide me on this part: So far i have done the following things: 1.Installed all the rpms from the /rpms directory. 2.Installed minicom and i can see a cygmon prompt. 3.Installed xinetd, tftp,tftp-server. i started the /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start The ramdisk_img.gz and zImage are in the /opt/ixasdk/executive/bin directory. I am not using a separate machine to load the ramdisk and zImage. At the cygmon the local IP and remote IP are both the same machine/localhost,set the countdown value to 10,saved the config to flash memory and then did a gl to boot linux but it keeps giving me a failed to initialize tftp transfer,check network connection and IP addr error. Then i tried to tftp from the cygmon prompt by doing : cygmon>tftp 140.192.37.19 140.192.37.19 /opt/ixasdk/executive/bin/zImage c4008000 It still gives the same error. Any suggestions? Thanks, -Darshan _________________________________________________________________ Get holiday tips for festive fun. http://special.msn.com/network/happyholidays.armx