Solaris 8 Install on Ultra 5

Hello,
I have an Ultra 5 with SunOS 5.8 installed. There is one 9Gb internal disk. I am installing Solaris 8 on the Ultra5 and get the following errors repeatedly for different Requested Blocks. They start after the "- Reboot After Installation?" page is confirmed..(last step on disk 1 of install cds). The system is meant to configure its disk here but this error starts.....
WARNING:/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/sd@2,0 (sd0):
Error for Command: read(10)     Error Level: Retryable/Fatal
Requested Block:166735     Error Block:166735     Vendor:LG
Serial Number:     Sense Key:Media Error
     ASC: 0x2 (no seek complete), ASCQ: 0x0, FRV: 0x0
all suggestions welcome,
g

It looks like you're trying to boot from cdrom, or the cdrom is involved here as "vendor: LG" is usually the cdrom. What does probe-ide, devalias and printenv boot-device show you at the ok prompt? It is unusual for (sd0) to be sd@2,0

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3 11 100%
4 12 100%
5 13 100%
6 14 100%
7 15 100%
8 16 100%
9 17 100%
10 18 100%
11 19 100%
12 20 100%
13 21 100%
14 22 100%
15 23 100%
16 24 100%
17 25 100%
18 26 100%
19 27 100%
20 28 100%
21 29 100%
22 30 100%
23 31 100%
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lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
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inet 172.24.0.10 netmask fffffe00 broadcast 172.24.1.255
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Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
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Sun Fire(TM) T1000, No Keyboard
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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solaris 10 recognize the sun PCI NIC automatically? If solaris can install NIC driver by itself, I will not install NIC driver, thanks

A number of drivers for supported cards were installed by default.
Solaris will not take any additional action when you add hardware. Either you've already got the driver and it'll be recognized, or you don't. If you don't have the driver, there might be a third-party driver available that you can download and install.
Best course of action is to add devices that are on the hardware compatibility list.
Darren

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I am trying to install solaris 10 Sparc on an Sun Ultra 40 i386 pc. Is that able to be done. I have libraries that only work on sparc machines. Thanks for any help.

SPARC and i386 are different CPUs. They are not compatible.
You run SPARC installations on SPARC hardware, you run x86 installations on x86 hardware.
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