topic Re: swinstall command in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall command

Sunny Chen — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:55:32 GMT

Hi, there:
I just want to install a bundle of hp application from cdrom, I use "swinstall", but my problem is the /opt will be full, so I create a new /opt2 and try to install them to /opt2, I don't want to extend the size of /opt. Any good ideas? thanks a lot!

Re: swinstall command

John Palmer — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:00:09 GMT

swinstall will insist on installing in /opt.

Among other things, you could:-

1. move one (or more) subdirectories into /opt2 and install a soft link in /opt.
2. Mount your /opt filesystem at /opt/ and amend /etc/fstab accordingly

Neither are as clean and tidy as having everything in /opt.

Re: swinstall command

Steve Sauve — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:00:27 GMT

You could mount another lvol under /opt to take the place of a large directory there. Another option would be to link a directory to another mountpoint (don't know if linking directories to /opt is a great idea though). Not sure why you don't want to extend /opt, but that may be the best choice.

Hope this helps,
Steve

Re: swinstall command

Andy Monks — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:00:39 GMT

If you know the directories involved it's possible. I had the same problem with omniback recently.

So, I created a /disk2 filesystem and then did a 'mkdir /disk2/omni'. Then a 'ln -s /disk2/omni/ /opt/omni'

Then the swinstall worked.

But you'll need to know the names of the directories under /opt for this to work.

Re: swinstall command

Rick Garland — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:00:42 GMT

swinstall will be looking at /opt. Even though you don't want to, to be clean you will need to increase /opt

Re: swinstall command

Stefan Farrelly — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:01:06 GMT

No, I dont think it is a good idea to create a new /opt2 and try to install there - im note sure you could anyway, swinstall will still try to install to /opt. The preferred option is to increase /opt. If you really cant do this then you could move some directories to a new filesystem and create a symbolic link from /opt/ to //. This would free up some space on /opt and hopefully enough to install your product.

Re: swinstall command

Antoanetta Naghiu — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:03:55 GMT

You can do:
ln -s /opt2 /opt/opt2
or create a link directly to the application.
If you need space under /opt for patches, I'm afraid you need to free up a bit of space.
You can move, for ex. hpnp stuff under your opt2 if you made the link.

Re: swinstall command

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:06:26 GMT

Hi:

I would see if anything is in /opt that shouldn't be -- perhaps a stray core file. I would simply lvextend /opt. If you have online JFS you can do this "on-the-fly", otherwise you will need to unmount /opt which generally forces you to do the extension in single-user-mode.

...JRF...

Re: swinstall command

CHRIS_ANORUO — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:07:15 GMT

SUNNY, THE BEST WAY IS TO DO IT ANDY'S WAY.

Re: swinstall command

RikTytgat — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:21:40 GMT

Hi,

I agree, but swinstall will still check the free space on /opt unless you use the option

-x enforce_dsa=true

Bye,
Rik

Re: swinstall command

Andy Monks — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:37:57 GMT

Thanks Chris. It worked for me, however, I only needed omniback and I knew it's directory name.

Re: swinstall command

Sunny Chen — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:24:46 GMT

Thanks All, the reason I don't want to extend /opt just because I don't want shutdown the server, and the file system is HFS, I got your ideas, thanks a lot.

Re: swinstall command

Anthony Goonetilleke — Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:47:20 GMT

Sorry guys I tend to disagree...
You can install software where ever you want...
When you are in swinstall mark the sofware for installation click on it, then go to the Actions menu, and select "Change Product Location" now you can install it where ever you want even /opt2