swinstall accross the net

[Erik Voelker_1]

I am attempting to install an application (Glance) on a 10.20 system over the LAN without much luck... The interactive swinstall program will not recognize the remote host/software depot (cdrom) although hosts/DNS is properly configured.

am I missing something?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Erik,

Kill your swagentd process and restart.

#kill pid_of_swagentd
#/usr/sbin/swagentd -r

-Sri

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Eric,

At the interactive install screen, give the source as network drive and try the ip of the remote depot in place of the name of the remote server. You should be able to see the depot on the remote server and should be able to install.

Hope this helps.

thanks

[Roger Baptiste]

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Hi,

are you able to use swinstall
from ""regular"" depots, that
is not from remote CD , but
from a network depot? This
is to isolate, whether the
problem is with SW itself
at your system , or in
accessing the CD.
If SW itself is not working,
restart Swagentd daemon
/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
(kill any other sw processes
lying around)
and then start .

Since this is 10.20, make
sure you have the patch
PHCO_20209 installed or
stop measureware to run Swinstall.

HTH
raj

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

Do what I do in a pinch:

On server with CD:

mount your CD on a dir like /cdrom (you might have to make it)

add "/cdrom -ro" to the /etc/exports file

exportfs /cdrom


on remote server:

mount :/cdrom /cdrom (you might have to make /cdrom)

swinstall


select local disk


have at it


live free or die
harry