Note, there is a project to create a text based installer for Sparc:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/TextInstallerProject/

Regards,
Brian

Mauro M. wrote:
> I bumped into the same problem and wasted a few CDs before asking the same 
> question.
>
> The answer is that OpenSolaris can be installed from a CD only on an 
> intel/amd based server. Then you can use that server to install on sparc.
>
> Since I did not have an intel server to spare I eventually gave up on 
> opensolaris.
>
> Too bad that Sun does not support Sparc CPUs first.
> MM.
>   

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