Solaris 10 installer varies based on memory

I'm installing Solaris 10 on an Ultra 10 440Mhz.
I have noticed an odd behaviour when trying to install solaris 10. If I have 128MB of memory a black and white character based installer is presented when I run 'boot cdrom', 256MB presents a character based installer with a blue background, and above 256MB of memory a java based GUI is presented. The issue is I can only get a successful install done when the blue installer is presented? The others seem to fail with VTOC issues or creating the filesystems. I'd like to know if anyone can identify these different installers and whether they can be invoked via boot? nowin seems to be ignored? BTW: I've installed S10 about 10 times to various HD's and this behaviour is consistent. If I have 256MB loaded it's as clean as a whistle, otherwise it will fail.

To me, setting a massive shared memory segment just seems to be inefficient. I understand that Oracle is only going to take up as much memory (in general) as the SGA. And I've been searching for any record of really large shared memory segments causing issues but haven't found much (I'm going to contact Sun to get their comments).
The issue I am having is that it doesn't make sense that the DB with a 5GB SGA is unable to startup when there is an 8GB max shared memory segment, but a 10GB (and above) seems to work. Does it really need double the size of the SGA when starting up, but 'ipcs' shows it's only using the SGA amount of shared memory? I have plans to cut it down to 4GB and test again, as that is Oracle's recommendation. I also plan to run the DB startup through truss to get a better handle on what it's trying to do. And, if it comes down to it, I'll just set a really big max shared memory segment, I just don't want it to come back and cause an issue down the road.
The current guidance on Metalink still seems to be suggesting a 4GB shared memory segment (I did not get a chance to test this yet with the DB we're having issues with).
I can't comment on how the DBA specifically increased the SGA as I don't know what method they use.

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