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Solaris 9 4/04 Installation Guide

Appendix C Platform Names and Groups (Reference)

You need to know your system architecture (platform group) if you are adding clients for a network installation and the platform name if you are writing a custom JumpStart installation rules file.

Some examples of platform names and groups follow. For a full list of SPARC systems, see Solaris 9 Sun Hardware Platform Guide.

Table C–1 Example of Platform Names and Groups

System 

Platform Name 

Platform Group 

Ultra 5 

SUNW,Ultra-5_10 

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.