Trouble installing Solaris 10 on Ultra 5!

Got this free U5 and just today I received a keyboard and mouse I had bought on eBay. So I went ahead and tried to install and didn't even know how to boot from CD (I am totally new to Sun hardware). So after googling a bit I have gotten as far as the point where after booting from CD and filling out all the necessary information like hostname locale etc,I select the standard disk layout without preserving data (thinking that this way a brand new drive layout will be created) and every time it seems like the installation begins but then upon reboot the system says that "the file loaded does not appear to be executable" and it just hangs at the ok prompt.
This workstation has 256 RAM and the cpu is a 360IIi,Openboot 3.25 and an IDE disk 8.4 Gb in size.
I am stumped at this point since I am actually pretty good when it comes to Windows and OS X but this hardware/software is totally new to me and at this point I need some concrete steps to resolve this and get it installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
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kansukee

Thank you,jenny. So it works the same way as OS X,then. Now I am again attempting to install and so far I have specified host name,ip addres and default route,set it to no kerberos,no remote services enabled,country,locale etc also have been set. I specified the default install;then it went into initializing system,loaded media and after a while I get the license screen,I select to install entire distribution after which I am presented with a screen asking me to identify the disk where I wish to install.
There is only one disk that I see ( c0t0d0) and if I press F4 to customize I am given the choice of selecting a boot device as follows :
Original boot disk:
[ ] c0t0d0s0
[ ] c0t0d0s1
[ ] c0t0d0s2
[ ] c0t0d0s3
[ ] c0t0d0s4
[ ] c0t0d0s5
[ ] c0t0d0s6
[ ] c0t0d0s7
[ x ] Any of the above
I think this is where I am getting stuck.I sthere anything I need to do specifically at this point?I am going to leave the machine sitting at this screen for the time being. Thank you all for your help...
After a few minutes it rebooted all by itself and showed a scrolling screen fulls of errors and it seemed to have something about a memory DIMM_could this be bad memory after all???
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