Solaris 10 for Intel - boot from floppydisk

Does anybody has an idea wheter it is possible to boot solaris 10 from floppydisk for installing the OS.
We have systems that cannot boot from ethernet/cdrom but we would like to use/install solaris 10 on these systems.

It is possible to start the installation (boot from) a floppy disk, using
a "DCA" (device configuration assistant) floppy diskette.
A 1.44MB DCA floppy image can be found on CD 2/4 or the DVD, in
the subdirectory .../Solaris_10/Tools, file d1_image. Write it to a
blank floppy media using the Unix "dd" or the MSDOS "rawrite.exe"
utility.
After you start the boot process from the DCA floppy, you must
either use a CDROM / DVDROM device as the boot device for the
Solaris installation, or an NFS installation (server using a supported
NIC in the client; 3Com 3c905, Intel Pro/100, or Dec 21x4x do work).

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