Solaris 10 installation freezes

Hello
im trying to install solaris 10 on a Sun ultra 10, but everytime i come to the language selection it just freezes and dont respond, if i press stop+a i get a prompt.
any one have any clues?
Cheers
Martin

Have you tried text-mode (non-gui) installation?
I do installation of Solaris 10 on VMWare many times, but I never had the problem you describe although I usually do text-mode installation since I don't have much memory assigned to Solaris 10. hopefull, this works for you.

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GNU GRUB version 0.95 (608K lower / 1046400K upper memory)
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| Solaris 10 1/06 s10x_u1wos_19a X86 |
| Solaris failsafe |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the
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