Solaris 10 8/07 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade

Platform Names and Groups

When you are adding clients for a network installation, you must know your system architecture (platform group). If you are writing a custom JumpStart installation rules file, you need to know the platform name.

Some examples of platform names and groups follow. For a full list of SPARC based systems, see Solaris Sun Hardware Platform Guide at http://docs.sun.com/.

Table 4–7 Example of Platform Names and Groups

System 

Platform Name 

Platform Group 

Sun Fire 

T2000 

sun4v 

Sun BladeTM

SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 

sun4u 

x86 based 

i86pc 

i86pc 


Note –

On a running system, you can also use the uname -i command to determine a system's platform name or the uname -m command to determine a system's platform group.