Solaris 8 installation problem on Dell laptop

Hi
I have Dell Latitude CPx laptop which has windows now.
I have freed space from the disk and removed the freed partition from windows control using fdisk and tried installing Solaris 8, 7/01 release using interactive install.
After initial screens scanning devices, config building, prompts for language selection. As soon as I enter 0 for English, the screen prints junk charcters and beeps continuosly and hangs.
Do any of you have a clue, to get over this problem.
Also please let me know, how to disable PnP feature in BIOS, since I didn't find PnP in BIOS setup.
Thanks in advance for help.
Ram

There seems to be a patch available at http://sunsolve.sun.com
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