All sources of this project not licensed by other means
are published unter GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3.

I use gcc version 2.9-nios-010801-20030923
found at 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=81497&package_id=83481

you will need:

cdk-nios-binutils
cdk-nios-gcc
cdk-nios-gcc-c++
cdk-nios-libgloss
cdk-nios-newlib

and unix2dos 

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On Debian Linux (tested with sidux):
Install alien:
  apt-get install rpm
  apt-get install alien

Convert all rpm packages to deb packages with alien (Example):
  alien cdk-nios-binutils-3.1-20040329.i386.rpm

Install all new deb Packages with klick on in Konquer (follow the dialog)

Add cdk4nios path into environment variable:
Edit file "/etc/bash.bashrc" and insert this line:
PATH=$PATH:/opt/cdk4nios/bin/
at the end of the file.

Install the tool unix2dos:
  apt-get install tofrodos

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After having installed the toolchain run 

make all

This will build the project and glue together
loader.flash and the projects .srec file to
the flashable .flash file which can be downloaded
via germs_up

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This is a little tool I have programmed to upload via serial connection 
to the germs bootloader.

Usage e.g.: cat ../TomCat.flash | ./germs_up /dev/ttyS0
It can be helpful to open minicom to initialize the serial port and check the communication

Regards, Andreas Fellnhofer

Updated
11.10.2008	Markus Müller	New section "On Debian:"