This might come in handy for someone new to Solaris.
Here’s how to create a bootable floppy in Solaris:

Put in Solaris 10 CD2 and a floppy, run ‘volcheck’ to check for new media if it doesn’t pick them up right away. Then:

This formats the floppy
# fdformat -d -U

Goto the dir on the drive where the image is
# cd /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_10/Tools

This copys the image to the disk
# dd if=d1_image of=/vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 bs=36k

Run this and then manually eject the floppy
# eject floppy

To eject cdrom
# eject cdrom0

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