> I received 2008.05 open solaris live cd for x86/x64.

Quite old...

2008.11 is current.

And development builds of 2009.06 are already availale
(http://www.genunix.org/)


> I tried on my new HP Pavillion DV9000 laptop.

How much physical memory is installed in this laptop?


> I created a NTFS 25 GB partition names solaris and
>  thought to write over it with Solaris.
> 
> The install process is not progressing.  I tried few
> kernel options but of no use. 

Where exactly is it hanging?

Does it start the gnome desktop from the live cd?
Does it hang in the gui installer?  At what percentage mark?

Is it possible to start a terminal window?  If yes,
what's the contents of the file  /tmp/install_log ?
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