Compiled SOF file doesn't work with Linux reference design for 3c120

I realize now that I am not doing any schematic capture in my tool flow. I was hoping the reference design would have some of this done for me.

Has anyone worked with this reference design?

The documenation for it is very software focused and refers you to the Quartus docs for all of the real hardware work.

Can anyone with experience point me in the right direction?

I've written a lot of software and some verilog, but this whole FPGA thing is new to me. Perhaps, I just need to do a couple Quartus tutorials.

Thanks,

Dave ...