Remote Installation of Solaris 10 on Sparc machine..

Hello all..
I have a Sun V240 box that has Solaris 8 currently installed on it. I need to wipe out the whole box and do a Fresh install of Solaris 10.
Problem is, that box is in the server room, and is not connected to any monitor, nor do it have any graphic card.I have only SSH access to the box from my Windows Desktop to do regular Admin operations.
How do i install Solaris 10( i got Solaris 10 on a DVD disk) on that box, that has no monitor and no graphic card. ?
Also, i do have a Sun V100 Desktop machine at my desk, that i use sometimes to connect to this Solaris Server.
any help is appreciated.
thanks
Ram

You could use 'live upgrade' to upgrade the system while it's still running, but you'd need extra disk space for that.
Or you could attach via the serial console and communicate with it that way to run the install.
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