Infrastructure Software

I have an HP dv6423om laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium installed.
I created a 25 GB FAT32 primary partition onto which I could install Solaris 10. After booting the Solaris 10 install DVD, I smoothly navigated the installation process until I had to select a hard drive partition. The partitions were all visible, and I could select the one I created to use with Solaris. I selected it, continued, made sure that my Windows partition said preserved (or else I'd be screwed) and I proceeded to install.

The installation appeared to be going without a hitch, slowly progressing. It hung at 97% and after about 10 minutes, I tried to access the terminal or do anything, but nothing worked or budged.
The text on the install windows said "[Installing SUNWsmmgr]" if that means anything.

Sadly, when I did a hard reset, my laptop no longer booted into Windows. I popped in my Vista DVD and tried to do fix the mbr, but it couldn't find any installation of windows on my computer!!! I ended up installing vista a second time on my 25 GB partition (lol, thank it was there <_<), and using my second vista to repair my first vista.

I am now back to my original square. I have only one Vista installed (my original) and a freshly formatted primary 25 GB FAT32 partition. I don't want a repeat of what happened, so any suggestions would help. I'm going to try reburning the DVD at a slower speed, in case it was a read error, but if it was the file or something else, i'd like help to figure it out! Thanks!

EDIT:
I revisited the place I download the iso from, and apparently it had two files:
sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd.iso
and
sol-10-u3-companion-ga.iso

The first is 2.99 GB, the other is 1.35 GB. These are the same files that are on sun.com (although they are compressed), so I think I have the correct ISO.

Edited by: ZetaZeta on Sep 15, 2007 5:37 PM

Edited by: ZetaZeta on Sep 15, 2007 5:43 PM