Installation of Solaris 10 freezes at 100%

Hi, I am trying to install Solaris 10 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 Server. However the installation will always freeze at 100% (I have repeated it a few times on RAID0 as well RAID1 configuration). It does not reboot and I am unable to do anything except to physically power down the system. When I power on the system again, it does not boot up because no OS is detected.
Does anyone know how I can resolve this? I had no problem doing the installation on my other servers. This server was running fine on Solaris 10 until one of the two harddisks crashed and had to be replaced. The problem occurs after I had changed the harddisk. Is there any particular disk configuration that I need to do before installing Solaris 10?

The Solaris IDE/ATAPI kernel module has problems accessing
your ATAPI CD/DVD device.
Solaris 10 x86 currently has DMA disabled for ATAPI CD/DVD
devices. Maybe it works better if you enable DMA on the CD/DVD?
Try to change the "atapi-cd-dma-enabled" property to "1", on the
last DCA "select boot device" screen, in the edit properties submenu.
You probably have to press the "ESC" key to interrupt the cdrom
autoboot, to enter the DCA.

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1. # ifconfig lo0 plumb upThe loopback connection (your lo0)is NOT a physical interface. There are no hardware components for it. Nor can I think of any reason why it should ever be anything other than the default 127.0.0.1
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unable to qualify my own domain nameAgain, search the Internet or even search these forums with that string of words.
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