Upgrading to BIOS 104 on Solaris 10 (x86) Sunfire X4100

So I am booting from the iso cd I made from the site and I am going through the Sun Installation Assistant and I'm at the "BIOS/ILOM" screen and its asking for the "Service Processor IP Address" and the "root passwd for service processor". I don't know what these are or how to get them. Can anybody help?

I think you will see the IP address when you boot up the machine, just after it displays the BIOS splash page. The default root password on the system is 'changeme', you can try that.
.7/M.

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