Installation of Solaris 10 on Dell Optiplex 745

Hi,
I am new to Solaris. I am planning to install Solaris 10 10/08 on my Dell Optiplex 745 with the following config,
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 @ 1.86 GHz
No if Bits: 64 Bits
RAM: 2 GB
HDD: 160GB
Monitor: Dell 17" Plug and Play
I would like to know if i can install Solaris 10 on this machine. If i am likely to face some problems, can you please detail the same.
Thanks,
Ashwin
Edited by: AshwinMKumar on Mar 26, 2009 12:58 AM

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