Solaris 10 X-86 On Compaq NX9600

Please help! I am trying to load Solaris 10 X-86 on an HP and an older IBM laptop (R32). The IBM gives a media error and doesn't even try to boot from the cd (regardless of the boot settings in the BIOS). It says no OS available and just hangs (the Windows XP that was on it is totally corrupt). I have tried to load a dual boot setup on an HP laptop (Compaq Nx9600). The first partition is Windows XP Pro (since it doesn't play well with others and wants the first boot block). I have tried to boot from the DVD and from the CD-ROM (4 disk) version I downloaded and burned recently from sun.com. With this laptop I get to where the GRUB tells me there is a ".tar.gz" file that it can't open (may be for keyboard) and then the "Languages" selection comes up in the interaction load. The problem is I have no keyboard interaction. The system is hung. Please help! I am at my whits end! I have tried 3 burners and 10 different tries!
Matt M. Parker

Ok, I replaced the failing NIC. Now 193.0.0.2 uses its iprb0 network adapter that is attached on the Motherboard and 193.0.0.1 has a new Realtek NIC. I downloaded the drivers and followed the instructions to install them.
According to me, it all went fine but still the machines can't ping each other.
I took a laptop and unplugged the crossover cable from *.1 . When I give my laptop the IP address 193.0.0.1 (instead of the Dell machine) and connect it to *.2 using the crossover cable, then these two can ping each other.
When I give my laptop the IP address *.2 and conntect it to the *.1 Dell machine using the crossover cable, then these two also can ping each other.
But when I connect the two Dell machines with the cross over cable: nothing.
I followed your advice to change the /kernel/drv/iprb.conf of *.2 . Now I also did the same for *.1 ; according to the man-pages, I can add the same line to /kernel/drv/rtls.conf .
The strange thing is that when I reboot them, then *.2 gives me the message:
iprb0: No MII link detected
and *.1 is so stubborn to stay in Half Duplex:
rtls0: link up -- 100Mbps Half Duplex
I thought that "No MII link detected" means that there is no cable connected, but the cable is plugged in (*). Maybe it appears because *.2 is booted up faster than *.1 ?
What might I have done wrong? It really baffles me that pinging from or to the laptop does not give any problem, but among each other there is no reaction at all.
Greetings,
Wim
(*) it is a cross over cable and the test with the laptop proves that it works, no?

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