firmware update on Blade 1500

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:29:50PM +0100, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >maybe I can copy the file somewhere under /boot/kernel
> >and pretend it's a kernel, and try to boot it?
> 
> I am always netbooting the firmware file. Until now it worked for me (from
> Ultra Sparc 1, 2, 5, 10, 30 and to Blade100).
> I suppose it works also for Blade1500 but I never did it.
> Maybe you give it a try.
> 
> Just use your other FreeBSD machines as rarp + tftp server to deviler the 
> file. The file should be renamed (or linked) to it's hex IP equivalent.
> tcpdump is your friend here!

sorry, could you please elaborate or give a link, I'm not familiar with
this. What's rarp? tftp? IP equivalent?

maybe you got an example from your old netbooting?

many thanks
anton

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