Re: A little more help for a new sparc user

Hi,

OpenBSD is working?  You can probably skip the prom update then.

If it doesn't work then it's worthwhile.

A simple howto is at:

http://www.SMTPS.net/netboot_flash_obp.html

It's close to what I used the last time I did one of these so,
it should work.  ymmv of course.

Good luck!

cheers

bruce

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 03:44:49PM -0800, Erin O'Meara wrote:
> Well I got the install up and running an have my netra X1 running openBSD.
> 
> In the install.sparc64 file in mentions applying the latest firmware patch
> for openbsd to run.  the firmware on the box is from 2001 and the latest is
> 2003.
> I have download the patch file from sun (111952-03) and the file is a shell
> script that contains an encoded file, which is a shell script with another
> enocode file.
> in the end I get the tar file that is double encoded and contains
> flashprom.64bit, flashprom.32bit and obp_image.
> 
> from reading the scripts the flashprom files are drivers for sun's OS and
> the other file is the firmware image.
> 
> any suggestions on how to flash the netra X1 firmware from openBSD?
> 
> I have played around with these steps and tried to boot the image file with
> no luck, should this work with the obp_image file?
> http://www.smtps.net/netboot_flash_obp.html
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Erin O'Meara