topic Re: Problems with swinstall remote in Operating System - HP-UX

Problems with swinstall remote

Haitham Hamad — Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:23:23 GMT

I am having trouble installing diagnostics tools on my remote system. After I installed Diag on my local system. I used swinstall to remotely install it on the other systems. I had permissions problems but was able to fix them by modifying the swacl -l host file and restarting the swagentd. Now swinstall thinks that my CDROM mount point (/diagtemp/DIAGNOSTICS/B.11.00) is a tape sourace and installation should be local. Any ideas why this is happening?

TIA,
Haitham

Re: Problems with swinstall remote

John Bolene — Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:42:41 GMT

Because you made a mount point and shared a network drive.

This is normal.

Otherwise I don't understand the question.

Re: Problems with swinstall remote

Carsten Krege — Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:54:28 GMT

Probably (I cannot check) the Diagnostic is saved as a tape depot (i.e a tar archive, the same form that HP uses to distribute patches over the internet) on the CDROM, instead of a "normal" depot (a directory tree). To my knowledge you cannot access these tape depots over the network.

The workaround is to copy the software you want to install on your harddisk and to install from this new depot.

local # swcopy -s /diagtemp/DIAGNOSTICS/B.11.00 @ /var/spool/sw

remote # swinstall -s local:/var/spool/sw

Carsten

Re: Problems with swinstall remote

Haitham Hamad — Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:11:30 GMT

Thanks Carsten, that makes sense. I went ahead and exported the CDROM on my local server and then mounted it on the remote server. I will use your procedure for the other remote server.