Ethernet problems installing Solaris 10 on Ultra 5

I am trying to install on a Sun Sparc Ultra 5 which I have inherited. The machine booted up OK with Solaris 7 with the old user's set up, but I do not have his ids or passwords.
When I try to install Solaris 10, early in the boot it comes up with "attempting to configure interface hme0..."
the a wait for a while then "Skipped interface hme0"
The network is OK and so is the cable - I checked them by swapping the leads with my lap top which could access the network fine.
I then went through and selected the language (English), selected 'networked', 'dhcp' then 'IPv6' then it comes up with "just a moment" then a long wait before "Could not contact a dhcp server on network interface hme0"
The dhcp server on the University network was fine.
I would be very grateful for any ideas or suggestions.
Many thanks,
Chris.

Christian,
The integrated NIC may or may not be working.
I'm going to presume you have a Sun keyboard, a Sun mouse and a monitor connected.
I'm also going to presume, unless you tell us otherwise, that you have never worked with Sun systems, before this Ultra-5.
Boot the system.
Just as you see a signal successfully activate the monitor, hold the STOP key and press the letter "A".
This stop-a sequence will halt the boot process and leave you at OpenBoot. Your screen prompt will the the word <b>OK</b>
There are many tests that you can perform at OBP, without invoking any OS. For today's tasks, you can prepare the chassis for a network circuit test.
Do ...
<b> OK set-defaults</b> <enter>
<b>OK setenv auto-boot? false</b> <enter> (note the question mark character)
<b>OK reset-all</b> <enter>
Those three items will clear the OBP of any confusing or customized settings, then it will prepare the chassis to always stop automatically at the OK prompt, then it will write your choices to the PROM and reboot the system.
You can reset the <i>auto-boot?</i> back to true when you are finished.
After the reboot it should automatically stop at OK.
If it does not do so, then you had a typo in your commands.
Type <b>sifting watch</b> to be presented with all the command syntax that includes the word "watch". Find the network test that checks for connectivity.
Do ...
<b>OK watch-net</b> <enter>
If the Ethernet port has link to a valid network, you will see dots scroll along. An occasional 'X' is a lost packet.
You can download the 211+ page PDF file for the OBP 3.x command reference from Sun's documentation site, Docs.Sun.Com.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1140.2?q=openboot+command+ reference
This is all described in that PDF.

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Tried to specify boot option "acpi-user-options=2" in the GRUB. Then it fails to mount the floppy drive
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http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6 312400
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which is the only way to add the ITU driver.
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[*] http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6 340822

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Hello all,
I had a defective CDROM drive in an Ultra 1, so i replaced the CDROM with another one from a windows PC! Now the problem i am having is that it does not boot from CDROM?? I have no clue as to why this is happening.
Interestingly, i can read the information/data on any other CD except the Solaris 2.6 installation CD!
Upon inserting this CD, it simply presents me with a file manager with a blank screen!!!
Your help is very much appreciated!

It is possible that the cdrom you have does not support 512K block size. I would try another cdrom...prefer an older one close to maybe a 4x or 8x

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