Solaris 8 on Intel hangs after FDISK

Target machine is a Compaq Presario 4660, 1 cdrom (HP), 64 megs, pII-300, IDE based HD under 8GB.
During install, blurb pops up notifing me that FDISK must be run, and a Solaris FDISK partition will be created for me. At this time, I get a FDISK screen. So, I happily create a couple partitions. One running about 10MB and set as x86 boot, the other set to Solaris, and running most of the rest of the disk. There is a 2GB partition for Winblows on the disk.
After leaving FDISK, everything just hangs. If I reboot, im not prompted to FDISK again, it just hangs. The little cursor keeps spinning around, but nothing happens past 'rpc.bootparams'. If I go to winblows and delete the solaris partitions using winsucks fdisk, it goes back to loading the webinstaller and saying 'Dude! We need to build this Solaris FDISK partition!' at which time the above loop starts again and everything just hangs.
So what should I do :)
Thanks
James
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Hi.
I don't kmow if those I tell you could serve.
The problems I have had with the Fdisk partition were solved of this form: I only create ONE Solaris partition, because the multilingual Solais Free release ($100) creates automatically one of 10Mb (if I create 2, one of 10Mb, the Solaris OS creates another ne of 10Mb). After this. it demand me to put a partition higer than 460Mb to swap. When I have done all, the program copies the OS boot on the partition. After we must reboot and the Webstart begins. The problem is that we must reinstall the OS with the 1st intallation disk, because the partition hasn't been formatted by fdisk. Once the new install CD has run, the Solaris take the global Solaris partition and ask to format it. We say yes. after that we can instal the rest of the OS. (It happens in the spanish instalation, but I think that the rest will be samely). Sorry for my english.
Gerardo

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