Network Boot of Solaris 10 on Netra T4 - scratch memory overflow

Hi,
I recently got a hold of a Netra T4 server, and am now trying to install Solaris 10 on it. Since the server can DVD-driveless, I had to resort to booting it over the network from a boot server. I have progressed through a series of errors, from not configuring the NFS correctly, to making sure the RARP was on as well.
The current issue that I am having is when i start the boot (boot net -v install), it begins to load the image, and then haults when it reaches:
Rebooting with command: boot net -v install
Boot device: /pci@8,700000/network@5,1: File and args: -v install
38e00 Using RARP/BOOTPARAMS...
Internet address is: 10.10.1.201
hostname: bfc
domainname: (none)
Found 10.10.1.120 @ 0:30:48:8d:c2:6
root server: owl (10.10.1.120)
root directory: /pub/install/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot
boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix
Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]: /pub/install/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot/platfor
m/SUNW,Netra-T4/kernel/drv/sparcv9/lombus
boot: failed to allocate 8192 bytes from scratch memory
panic - boot: boot: scratch memory overflow.
Program terminated
I'm not exactly sure why this is occuring, or what I can do to resolve this. Has anyone else come across this scenario? Judging from google searches, I haven't found anything that can help me fix this. Hopefully someone can.
Thanks a ton,
Kyle

that path was one of the specific paths that I used to manipulate the boot. I resulted to trying this because it was unable to load from kernel/sparcv9/unix. This thing is, that path is available on the media that I am using, so I have no idea why is it saying it can't find it.
The path that you see:
<pub/install/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot/platform/SUNW,Netra-T4/kernel/drv/sparcv9/lombus>
was one of the paths that I tried using to get it to install from, because it said it couldn't find the default path. The path you see just happened to be the one that was on the screen when I copied it to show the error message in this thread.
As you can see, I'm a little stuck. As it stands...I don't know many things about installing on sparc servers.
With that said, any help would do. At the moment, I am downloading the Solaris 9 media, and then I will try to get at Solaris 10 by upgrading the software. If this fails, I will just buy a DVD drive.
Can anyone still help me?

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