Reinstall zones (solaris 8 container)

Hi
I have to restore 2 zones, because originally the zones are stored on a ZFS filesystem i've did the backup with the zfsdump scripts.
I'm able to restore the ZFS filesystems but that leaves me with the problem of reconfiguring the zones.
how do i configure and reinstall these zones?, the original flash archive used to setup these zones is missing.
would it be possible to use the following procedure
1) restore the zfs filesystemen
2) clone the latest snapshot and mount it.
3) create an archive from the mounted snapshot to use as the install media for the zone
the second option i can think of is
1 ) create a standard solaris 8 zone with the solaris 8 image you can download from Sun
2) Copy the files from the mounted clone to the new zone
3) boot the zone
I'm hoping someone could guide me in the right direction
Regards,

I just managed to restore a zfs filesystem with a solaris 8 container on it using the steps below.
I'm curious if i got it right or if there is another more obvious way as i have only a little experience and hands on time with the zfs filesystem.
bash-3.00# zfsrestored.sh -z storage/z-chili
storage/z-chili is restored from /nsr/storage_z-chili.20081206.
bash-3.00#
bash-3.00# zfs clone storage/z-chili@20081206 storage/z-chili/restored
bash-3.00# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
storage 85.9G 48.0G 24.5K legacy
storage/data 69.7G 48.0G 69.7G /data
storage/z-chili 7.61G 48.0G 7.61G legacy
storage/z-chili@20081206 0 - 7.61G -
storage/z-chili/restored 0 48.0G 7.61G legacy
storage/z-polen 4.26G 48.0G 4.26G legacy
storage/z-polen@20081211 832K - 4.26G -
storage/zones 4.32G 48.0G 4.32G /export/zones/
bash-3.00#
zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/restore storage/z-chili/restored
bash-3.00# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
storage 85.9G 48.0G 24.5K legacy
storage/data 69.7G 48.0G 69.7G /data
storage/z-chili 7.61G 48.0G 7.61G legacy
storage/z-chili@20081206 0 - 7.61G -
storage/z-chili/restored 0 48.0G 7.61G /mnt/restore
storage/z-polen 4.26G 48.0G 4.26G legacy
storage/z-polen@20081211 832K - 4.26G -
storage/zones 4.32G 48.0G 4.32G /export/zones/
bash-3.00# flar create -n zchili -R /mnt/restore/root/ /data/z-chili-restored.flar
Full Flash
Checking integrity...
Integrity OK.
Running precreation scripts...
Precreation scripts done.
Determining the size of the archive...
and i've used the flar image to install the zone.
apart from some file/dir permission rights this worked and i got the zone and webservers up and running.

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