usage of boot.flp

[Jake Burkholder]

Apparently, On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:45:39PM -0600,
	Fred Clift said words to the effect of;

> 
> I have a
> 
> SPARCengine(tm)Ultra(tm) AXi (UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 3.10.4 SME, 128 MB memory installed, Serial #10425614.
> 
> 
> which I want to put FreeBSD 5.1-BETA on.  I grabbed the boot.flp (a bit
> over 4 MB), dropped it into my ftfp/rarp/bootparams server and made made
> all the setup right afaik.
> 
> The file is properly tftp'd when I 'boot net' and I get
> 
> ...
> Boot device: /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/network at 1,1  File and args: -
> 404000 (this line counts up as it loads the file...)
> The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
> ...
> 
> 
> Should I be doing something different with this?  I was hoping not to have
> to download and burn a CD...
> 
> 
> Or am I just doing this wrong?  Hm -- perhaps i should boot into my
> network recovery shell and dd this over the first slice?  I'm new to
> FreeBSD on sparc64 - thanks for your patience and help.

Yes.  dd it to a slice and boot from that.

Jake