Searched, also on Google, but did not find any indication.
The machine is a DELL Inspiron 8100 which installs and ran RedHat 7.3
and OpenBSD just fine.

It is worth having a look at

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86.html
particularly the BIOS refs as these usually cause a heap of problems.

http://www.solaris-x86.org/

The 8000 and 8200 are listed on the HCl
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/views/laptop.mfg.html

And crossposted to alt.solaris.x86 for more input
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