Installation of Solaris 8 in Sun Fire V215

Hello.
I'm trying to install Solaris 8 on a Sun Fire V215 which comes with Solaris 10 pre-installed. I'm doing so because some of the software we developed seems to have problems onSolaris other than version 8.
Is Sun Fire V215 compatible with solaris 8??
I get the following error when trying to install SOlaris 8 update 2/04 from a CD:
Invalid install CD-ROM for karch "sun4u"
I've been looking all over the documentation of SUn Fire V215 to see whether it was possible or not to install such an old version of Solaris, but unluckily I never found anything. Can anyone help me?
Thank you very much
Jorge

That is not ever going to work.
Solaris 8 is a discontinued product.
That hardware will only work with SOlaris 10 and one specific release of Solaris 9.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunFireV215/SunFireV215.html
If you want a more complete explanation,
go back to your Sun sales representative, else open a support case with Sun.

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