Solaris 8 on Ultra 5

I would like to know what the mimimum hardware requirements are for installing Solaris 8 on a Ultra-5.

Here are the minimums as listed at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/ds-sol8oe
System Requirements
SPARC (32- and 64-bit) or Intel Architecture (32-bit) platforms
Disk space: 600 Mbytes for desktops; one Gbyte for servers
Memory: 64 Mbytes minimum
Were you thinking about a specific minimum on the Ultra 5?

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