Dual boot Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 on a SCSI hard disk

Hi,
I would like to dual boot Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 on a SCSI hard disk. Currenlty that 16gb hard disk has Solaris 9 installed on it.
What are the steps needed to install Solaris 10 and dual boot them?
Thanks a million.
ldd

Unfortunately we can't help you as this forum is only for questions or problems relating to Sun Update Connection, Patch Manager 2.0, & PatchPro 2.2.
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