Windows NT 4.0 and Solaris 8

Hello everyone,
I have an Intel Pentium system with Windows NT 4.0 SP 6 and I would like to be able to install Solaris 8 on this system and dual-boot. I have 2 hard disks and I plan to install Solaris on the second one. The installation instruction says insert the "Solaris Installation" CD and boot the system. I tried that with the BIOS option set to boot from my CD but nothing happens and it just boots Windows NT as usual. Can anyone tell me what is wrong? I haven't partitioned the new hard disk yet - I was hoping to get into the Solaris installation first to do it.
Please help.
Thanks

I have the same configuration you describe - NT (now W2K) on the primary master (NTFS) and Solaris on the secondary master. I deleted all partitions off the second disk using the W2K disk manager and installed Solaris to the second disk. I left 500 mb free on the second disk and after the Solaris install I formated the area as FAT16 for a common transfer area between the two OS's. It took me a while to get DSL to work on Solaris so I needed a big area for downloads for Solaris via W2K. I now automatically mount the area as /dos using vfstab. You can download bootpart 2.50 from http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm. This version has a LBA option for large disks. It copies the Solaris MBR over to the NT drive as a file and updates the boot.ini so you can select Solaris as a boot option from NT. It's not dangerous and you will get tired of that bios stuff real quick!
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