Need Help!!! Solaris 8 on SPARC

Hello
I'm trying to install Solaris 8 on ULTRA1 170.
I cut all 3 CD's without any problem. Booting from the Install CD with "BOOT CDROM" command. It goes through the CD, reboots the machine and asks for the Software CD1.
I put in CD1 click OK and it start to initialize the install. It goes about quarter of the bar and the bar disappears. I'm at the KIOSK screen and nothing happens (no cd activity). I waited a long-long time here.
Solaris 7 was running fine on this system and I even reinstalled it just to make sure it is not hardware related. Downloaded and burnt software cd1 twice. No difference.
What am I doing wrong? Please help!!! I�m going crazy. If you don't understand my exact problem just ask.
TIA chris

Fixed it
I had to boot from Software CD1 and I used jump start installer. Insted of web start what apparently did not work for me.

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