Solaris 8 installation in MS Virtual pc

Hi everybody ,iam new to solaris environment.Iam installing Solaris8 in virtual pc.
The message its showing is :please specify the media from which you will install the solaris operating environment.
I have selected the cd/dvd option as the source is the .iso image of the solaris s/w i downloaded from sun site.
But it is giving the same message even when i tried all the 3 CD images.
Can anybody suggest ....Thanks in advance.

Unless you have a specific need for solaris 8, solaris 10 x86 is much more installation friendly and is 100% backward binary compatible. Solaris 8 requires the DCA diskette (device config assistant) which is a floppy image.
Again, unless you have a reqirement for solaris 8, 10 is easier (no DCA, direct cdrom access, just works).
Another typical problem people experience with all of these downloads, though, is that they are not using the free Solaris Download Manager to retrieve the CD images. More often than not, when people get cd boot problems, it's not a good download. SDM can do connection retries, etc.

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Thany you very much for your support
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