Solaris 8 on PC100 M7** mainboards

Dear All
Has anyone successfully installed Solaris 8 on a PC100 M7** mainboard?? A number of users have experienced kernel panics and BAD TRAP failures when installing with IDE devices - they can't get past the DCA part of the install.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
Simon

I'm having problems with a PC-100 motherboard as well.
I've installed WinNT, Win 2K, Win 9x, Linux a number of times, but I can't get the DCA floppy nor the CD install disk to boot. Or maybe it boots, but then hangs. My system has a new ASUS CUBX PC-100 motherboard (OK -- apparently not on the HCL...).
David

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