Solaris 8 (Intel) Installation problems

I have not been successful to install Solaris 8 (Intel version).I am
installing from the (Install CD) and I get to the Solaris Boot screen that
says:
Select one of the identified devices to boot the Solaris Kernel and
choose F2 to continue. Solaris identifies 2 IDE Disk Drives (on Primary Controller),
a third IDE HDD (Secondary master) and the CD ROM as a slave on the Secondary
Controller. When I choose the CD ROM as the Boot disk, the system hangs
forever!. Any suggestions?
P.S: The installation CD contains the following:
image = 550MB
(.VOLUME) : 47 bytes
ADD_INSTALL_CLIENT: 54.5KB
BOOT: 0 bytes
COPYRIGHT: 5.3KB
MODIFY_INSTALL_SERVER = 3.37KB
The total of these files is : 93KB
Dose this seem correct, having in mind that the image file is 550MB
Thanks,
Kamel Elchazli

At the "(b)oot or (i)nterpreter" prompt, type:
b kadb -v
This loads the Solaris kernel under kernel debugger (kadb) control.
Apparently your system crashes with a kernel panic, and when kadb
is loaded, kadb will catch the kernel panic error and drop you into the
debugger so that you can read the panic messages.
The "-v" option enables verbose kernel messages, which might be
useful to diagnose the problem.

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