Solaris 9 killed my ultra

while attempting a new 9 install Ultra 5 gave up 1/2 way.
have attempted to install more than 10 times with no luck.
Usually install cant find the hard drive. sometimes when
it does the install quits 1/2 way. <sol 8 was running fine.>
sol9 CDE install disk doesn't do its job. & the software 1 of 2 disk
is only slightly better. now, I have a dead Ultra 5.
<useful>suggestions welcome

I would suspect bad hardware. Either the cdrom has some kind of defect, or your Ultra 5. I would attempt to install Solaris 8 on this machine to see if perhaps it's a media problem. You might also want to attempt the install from the Install 1 of 2 disk. It's much faster that way anyhow.
Dave

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Thank you,jenny. So it works the same way as OS X,then. Now I am again attempting to install and so far I have specified host name,ip addres and default route,set it to no kerberos,no remote services enabled,country,locale etc also have been set. I specified the default install;then it went into initializing system,loaded media and after a while I get the license screen,I select to install entire distribution after which I am presented with a screen asking me to identify the disk where I wish to install.
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