Standalone Atmega 2560 ISP program First I need to say, I'm a complete electrics newbie, so I need your help.

I have got a standalone Atmega 2560, which I want to program. I connected MISO, MOSI, SCK, RESET, 5V and GND to an Arduino Uno.
In addition a 16MHZ oscillator is connected to XTAL1 and XTAL2 plus I pull all VINs of the Atmega with a 100nF to GND. Plus I connected a separate VIN and GND to the 2560.

I programmed the Arduino Uno as an "Arduino as ISP". Afterwards I connected the 2560 as mentioned above, changed the board to "Mega 2560" and tried to upload a sketch through the Arduino and I get the error message:
avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer

Is there something I missed?

Cheers
jb
I have a sketch that programs bootloaders. A side-effect of that sketch is it fixes up the "divide clock by 8" fuse.

It looks like the wiring will be the same, but cross-check on that page (scroll down to the part about programming the Mega2560).

Once a bootloader is installed you could use it, if you get an FTDI cable, or simply go back to using the ArduinoISP now that the fuse is fixed.