Help on Solaris 8 installation

I have tried to install Solaris 8 couple of times but it�s failed. I get this HEX dump after installation is completed. Is there something I am doing wrong in my partition. I have the following Partitions
On disk one(8G approx):
/ => 4000Megs
swap => 2000
/etc => 2000Megs
On disk two (8G approx) :
/var (2Gigs)
/usr (2Gigs)
/export/home (2Gigs)
/opt (2Gis)
Thanks

/etc cannot be a seperate file system. It must remain part of /. You need access to /etc/vfstab to mount other filesystems so if you have a seperate /etc you will never mount /etc. On disk 1, I would make / 2 gig, Swap 2 gig and /usr 4 gig. On disk 2 give the extra 2 gig to /var - in my humble opinion.

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Edited by: 923748 on Mar 27, 2012 10:59 AM
Edited by: 923748 on Mar 27, 2012 11:00 AM

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Edited by: rukbat on Mar 27, 2012 2:35 PM

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GNU GRUB version 0.95 (608K lower / 1046400K upper memory)
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Solaris 10 1/06 s10x_u1wos_19a X86 |
| Solaris failsafe |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the
commands before booting, or 'c' for a command-line.
"

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