Solaris 10 x86: Booting from floppy to install

Hi all, I have an old PIII machine which won't boot from CD.
Does anyone know how to generate the floppyes that could boot and then access the CD like in Solaris 2.6 ?
Thank you very much!
M

What revision of Solaris 10? I had this happening with an older release of Solaris 10 on my desktop, and it magically fixed itself with release 8/07.

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