I am trying for last 3 days to install Sun Solaris 10. i have downloaded Full DVD image and 5 cd images from Sun's website.

1. I tried with DVD image but it cannot read some clusters at onset so I am not even getting Grey console after providing option 1 [Solaris Interactive Mode (Default)]. Issue is: Fatal error...cannot read from Media device
2. tried to load from 5CDs pack...
It was good all over and installation was going fine. After setting all mounting point et al, system started Solaris installation; however, after loading 16% (exactly), black DOS screen came back with certain error and the last text was
rebooting...
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There was no sign to reboot either. I waited for 4-5 minutes and pressed restart button to reboot forcefully. Once the system reboot was over, system asked me to insert disk 2 and I did so.
After I clicked "OK", installation panel showed me "Loading installation window Solaris 10 package 2...please wait". I waited for more than 1 hour, nothing came up and, it seemed, system was sleeping.....
Next time I again restarted system forcefully and tried to install Diskette 3 but this time also same thing happend. I am not sure what is going on.

Please tell me how should I proceed. If anybody has Sun Solaris 10 copy, please do forward me.....

Another question: At the time of installation, how solaris installar detects free disk space on HDD? Out of total 80GB I have 20GB for windows XP, 35 GB free for data storage and rest 20 GB for Solaris. When I came on the screen that asks to define hdd partition, I found that solaris detected only two parts: one is for Windows and other two parts were merged together.