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You can also use the "liveupgrade" tool to create just a new bootenvironment without upgrading the new copy of your disk... Read here for more infos:

Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Create a Boot...

Yes, if the new disk is the exact same as the existing (but check the number of LBA's as even disks of the same model number can be different sizes) then you could use 'dd' specifying the raw disk...

Is it the same exact disk? If so I would use dd command, as I do with old aix or HP-UX...

On what directories are these two two disks mounted?

What do you mean by "default directory"? You use your shell's cd utility to change your current working directory to a different directory.
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No, it's definitely not the same with Unix.
There is no separate file hierarchy per disks (partitions) but a unified one starting from "/".

No problem asking basic questions. Start with showing...

I repeat: On what directories are these two two disks mounted?

If the filesystems on those disks have not been mounted, you will not be able to use ls to list the files on those disks. If you...

As DN2 says, your V490 will only support the Solaris versions he states. If your CPU speed was less than 1500MHz then you could run Solaris 8 but with 1500MHz or more CPU that's not possible.

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The minimum supported Solaris versions for a V490 system are:

You can download Solaris 10 from Oracle.

My money has to be on that the Solaris 8 CD/DVD you have is too old for that hardware. If you have a compatible distribution it should just work.

I'm assuming that the DVD drive is working? ...