How to install solaris 8 in 30 GB ata/100 drive ?

Solaris installation fails saying that there is no suitable hard disk or partition available in my system.
If I run format utility I can see the hard drive but
Solaris does not recognize it's partitions and requires me to enter nr of cyls, heads etc...
I do not go further because it may destroy my whole partitions.
have 30 GB ata/100 Seagate hard drive and there is
a 5 GB empty slot reserved for Solaris installation.
It's just after a 12.5 GB of first primary (with logicals) and just before a 10 GB of another primary.
I've tried followings without success:
1- Leaving 5 GB unpartitioned
2- Created a 5 GB primary partition without format
3- Created a 5 GB ext2 (using linux) partition
4- Created a 5 GB ext2 with ufs format
Everytime I've got same error, Solaris cant find a partition. I suspect it does not recognize hard disks larger than either 8 Gig or 1024 cylinders or ata/100.
What can I do?

I downloaded the Solaris 8 for x86 yesterday and burned them into CDs.
I have the following hardware configuration.
- Intel i815E mainboard
- Intel PIII 733
- KingMax 256M 133MHz
- Maxtor 30G hard disk
- Acer 50X CDROM
The inistallation initially gave me a warning.
WARNING: ACPI Table not in Reclaim Memory
And it gave more warning during the installation process:
Resource Conflicting -- Both devices are added
The conflicting devices are:
- PNP0C01
- ISY0050
Unfortunately, I don't know what they are. :(
However, these are not the whole story. The installer went ahead to
let me fdisk my 30G hard disk.
I accepted the "Solaris Default" and answered Y to the question "Can
swap slice start at the beginning of the disk?". Immediately, the
system hangs there but the keyboard is responsive that I can type
anything I want.
In addition, I use the 512M as swap as suggested by the installer.
Can anyone help me with this situation? I have tried installing this
version of Solaris for several times but with no luck. :S
Any insights are highly appreciated! Thanks!
- Peter

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