Solaris 8 Compatibility woth AMD Procesor

I need to install Solalris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) on my PC that runs on AMD Athlon x86 900MHz Processor. I need some advice on compatibility of these two products. Please assist.

I had no problems at all to install Solaris 8 IA on
a box with AMD Athlon 650 MHz (Gigabyte board)
and one with Athlon 900 MHz (Asus board), only,
with the latter box, my IBM disk (40G) was only
recognized as 8GB, which obviously had nothing
to do with the processor. An installation attempt
on a K6-2/500 also seemed to work fine.
regards, E. Sanio

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Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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