Lot of troubles (impossible) installing Solaris 10 on VMware Workstation 6

Hi, i'm experiencing troubles trying to install Solaris 10 x_86 (the last release) on VMware Workstation 6.
During the creation of the virtual machine I selected Solaris 64bit (I'm running an Intel Core2Duo CPU), selected the first ISO image and boot up the virtual machine. The installation of the first cd went just fine.
During the installation of the second cd, at a certain percent (sometimes ~50%, or later) the virtual machine reboots: I select the first choice on grub menu, but Solaris tolds me that something about the root repository (I don't remember well) is out of sync, and suggest me to reboot in failsafe mode and repair it; I did it and reboot...Doing this way I installed the second cd, but for the third (it happened the same -reboot- problem) it didn't work:
after fixed the repository in failsafe mode, and after reboot it doesn't start the installer, and shows this message:
http://img469.imageshack.us/my.php?image=solarishangsoi3.png
Please help me! I don't really know where/what I'm doing wrong...
Thanks really a lot for any help.
Regards
Gabriele

Simply Great, I had to Reboot the OS and I went to Failsafe mode where it went to single user mode and ask to update boot_archive, that worked.
When i Shutdown and Rebooted the System i could see system booting nicely and then it gave me bunch of Errors.
I think i will go and Do a Fresh Install again :(

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