Solaris 8 Install on SS5

Hey there,
I just got the full version of Solaris 8. I am trying to install it on my SPARC 5. I am using a Sun Bootable CDROM drive, which works fine. It boots and asks me stuff about the swap and can it be written as the first partition, then i say yes. It seems to try to format it and then says format failed. What does this sound like? Bad HDD? Thanks for helping!
Matt

Matt,
It sounds like there could be problems with your Hard Drive. Try booting the system with a DOS Bootable floppy and running the format command manually:
format c:
Thanks & Revert back,
Allen
Sun Developer Support

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=====================
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