Installing Oracle9i on HP-UX 11.11

[Millicent Howze-Simmons]

I am trying to load Oracle 9i on HP-UX 11.11.

However, when mounting using the "pfs_mount"
I get an error saying that the file:
/etc/pfs_fstab

What is fstab?
How do I create this file?

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

You really do NOT want to use the pfs daemons. That are horrible.

Instead, use the '-o rr' option to the regular mount command to mount your CD.

# mount -F cdfs -o rr /dev/dsk/c?t?d? /cdrom

Will do exactly the same thing as the pfs command the Oracle manuals tell you to use.

[David Bellamy]

Millicent:
/etc/pfs_fstab is just a file that has your DVD/CD drive in it
you can create this file by just doing "vi /etc/pfs_fstab"

[Bill Hassell]

You are following an Oracle document that has never been updated. As mentioned, PFS is a lousy tool that requires NFS and can lockup your system. Check your man page for mount_cdfs:

man mount_cdfs

It should document the rr option (RockRidge). If not, your system is not patched and you must add these 3 patches:

PHCO_25841 PHKL_26269 PHKL_34153

Then ignore all the Oracle docs referring to PFS and just mount the CD's with the -orr option.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

mount -F cdfs -o rr /dev/dsk/c?t?d? /cdrom

SEP

[Asif Sharif]

Hi simmons,

nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd&
nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &
mount -F cdfs -o rr /dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /cdrom

Regards,
Asif Sharif