I never did quite figure out why the CD kept timing out. I did a bit of
research and found that Solaris 2.4 has a bug in the esp driver which
causes problems similar to what I was having. I ended up just grabing
another old "junk box" (Sparc ClassicLX) and used it. Actually, I went
a order a copy of Solaris 2.6 server, got a 1GB disk and did the Network
install by copy the Solaris 2.6 OS image on disk vs. reading it off the
cdrom. This works a lot better for me! Thanks a bunch guys!