Solaris 8 (intel) installation

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 chose the CD ROM as the Boot disk, but the system hangs forever!. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Kamel Elchazli

Hi!
I also had the same exact problem during the install. The only way that I could procede was to tell it that I didn't want to install networking. Now when I boot, it tries to load the elx0 driver (for my 3Com 3c509b) and brings the following message, "SIOCSLIFFFLAGS cannot assigm requested address." I have checked the Irq/IO setting in the hardware configuration agent and everything seems to be correct. To top it all off, once I logon if I enter "ifconfig elx0 192.168.1.2 up" then everything works fine. I tried to forceload the elx0 module in /etc/system to see if the module just wasn't loaded early enough but this did not help. Any ideas of what else I should check?
TIA

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