Solaris 9/10 Installation

Hi Folks,
Sorry if this has already been asked but im having problems installing either solaris 9 or 10 on a solaris ultra 5.
The box has solris 8 installed at the moment and we are looking to upgrade to solaris 10, but with a new HDD when we try to install i get the error:
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Cant open boot device.
I read somewhere that this could be the cd drive which was faulty, however i have now tried a different cdd and dvd drive and got the same result.
To clarify, i cannot install either solaris 9 or 10 which were downloaded from the sun website, i even tried a commercial version of solaris 9 which gave the same error.
Now one thing i have changed is the hard drive. The hard drive which is in place just now is a blank out of the box maxdata hard drive, could this be the problem?
Thanks in advance
Allan

Hi Alex thanks for replying.
The sequence of events are:
Boot into solaris 8, put the installation disk into the drive. (The disks contents can be seen in solaris). Reboot the system. Openboot runs, i press stop+a anyway. Enter boot cdrom and get the error:
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Cant open boot device.
If i enter boot disk, it will boot back to solaris.
I must be doing something wrong. The disk did work when i performed a test installation on a HP system. ?
Thanks
Allan

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