Solaris 8 on intel(Dell Inspiron 4150)

I am trying to install Solaris 8 on my Laptop (Dell Inspiron 4150), but it is getting terminated stating "No dump device, continue to reboot".
Can anybody tell me if it is possible to install Solaris 8 or 9 on Dell Inspiron 4150.
How do I check the HCL?
Jitendra

http://laptops.solaris-x86.org lists a Dell Inspion 4100. I assume the
Inspiron 4100 and 4150 are build with similar hardware.
You should probably try to collect some information about the cause
of the kernel panic first, by booting with "kadb -v". Boot from the
"Software 1 of 2" CD, and at the "1 interactive or 2 custom jump start"
propmt, type
b kadb -v
The system will panic one again, but this time you can print a stack
backtrace, using the kadb "$c" command.
Report what error messages are printed now.
Does it panic due to a NULL pointer access, and is there a subroutine
"elxl_send" visible on the stack backtrace?
The entry in the laptop list indicates that you need a special version
of the "elxl" driver for the 3com network card. The standard Solaris 8 elxl
driver is known to panic the kernel with certain variants of the 3com
3c905 cards.
In this case you should try to install solaris with the NIC disabled in
the BIOS, install Solaris, install the updated elxl driver mentioned in thttp://laptops.solaris-x86.org and finally manually configure the NIC.

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