System Administration Guide, Volume 1 is part of a three-volume set that includes a significant part of the Solaris system administration information. It contains information for both SPARC based and IA based systems.
This book assumes that you have already installed the SunOS 5.8 operating system, and you have set up all networking software that you plan to use. The SunOS 5.8 operating system is part of the Solaris product family, which also includes many features, including the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). The SunOS 5.8 operating system is compliant with AT&T's System V, Release 4 operating system.
For the Solaris 8 release, new features interesting to system administrators are covered in sections called What's New in ... ? in the appropriate chapters.