Installing Solaris 10 From HDD .iso

How can I install Solaris 10 from the downloaded .iso file on my HDD. Is it possible at all? I currently don't have a DVD burner so it would be beneficial for me if I could skip the burning the .iso on a DVD step.
Thanks in advance.
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Asadujjaman

1) Mount the iso as a LOFS.Well, not lofs. On Solaris lofs is the filesystem loopback driver (which lets you mount a portion of a filesystem elsewhere).
For filesystems in a single file, you want LOFI via 'lofiadm'.
lofiadm -a /path/to/install_media.iso
mount -r -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt (or whatever paths are valid...)
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