Installing Solaris 8 on Acer Travelmate 330T

I can't configure my Acer Travelmate 330T, which had Windows 98SE installed, to run Solaris 8. There are a few problems:-
1. The installation procedure will come to a point where it asked whether I want the program to fdisk cd0f0. If I answered YES, my Windows 98 is gone for good. If I answered NO, the installation stops. Does anyone have the solutions for this? Please advise (as I desperately need to dual boot with Windows and Solaris 8).
2. I tried installing Solaris 8 into a brand new harddisk using the same laptop. I selected YES to the above fdisk question. Everything went on well (I supposed so). However, when it reach the stage of configuring the video display drivers, I was stucked there. My laptop has a Trident display card with 2.5MB of RAM and a 12.1" LCD monitor. I can't find the name of my laptop's display adaptor in the list. I tried a few combinations but all failed. Can anyone please help?
Thanks.

Hi,
Check your motherboard and other hardware devices are
supported by intel Solaris x86 or not.
Check your hardware compatibility list try this URL:
http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl
Revert back.
Thanks & Regards,
Senthilkumar
SUN - DTSHello Senthil
I have contacted Dell for the motherboard model number, but they were not able to provide the number (strange)
The URL you gave, does not have my DELL OPTIPLEX GX400 listed as this is a relavitvely new model, however the older system in the same series are shown to be comaptible.
Chip set
Intel 850 Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)/accelerated graphics port (AGP)
Data bus width64 bits
Address bus width
32 bits
Direct memory access (DMA)
channels
eight
Interrupt levels
15
BIOS chip
4 megabits (Mb)
System bus speed
100 megahertz (MHz) clock, 400 MHz data rate

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