File on a CDROM

[Ray Bell]

I had a cd sent to me and had patches on it from HP. I mounted the file and try to copy it to disk and it will not let me do it. I can copy the other small files on it. The files on it are as following:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 -1 -1 1332 Feb 12 10:34 patch-delivery-13986.R
EADME.txt
-r-xr-xr-x 1 -1 -1 2335078400 Feb 12 10:33 patch-delivery-13986.depot
-r-xr-xr-x 1 -1 -1 491 Feb 12 10:35 patch-delivery-13986.sums

So is it a mount option I need to have on it because of the size...

[Torsten.]

"...try to copy it to disk and it will not let me do it"

Any messages?

Has your file system the "large files" option?

Why not install directly from CD?

# swinstall -s

[Ray Bell]

I have to use this cd on many different server that are remote so I like to have it copy to a file system. Once I copy it to a server and then ftp it out to the servers when I will schedule to do the install.

The file system I'm copy it to is set up with largefile. Anyway is there some mount option that I can use that will help?

[Torsten.]

Again, any error messages?

Did you read the readme?

[Ray Bell]

There is no error message.

Here's what the readme file said:

To load the patches from the depot use the swinstall command (you will need to be logged in as root):
swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true \
-s
Depending on which options were used when mounting the media, the filename of the depot may be slightly different.
Specifically, the filename may be all uppercase or all lowercase.

[Torsten.]

"... it will not let me do it..."

So if there is no error messages, what happens?

What is your command?

[Ray Bell]

The command I ran is:

cp patch-delivery-13986.depot /system_space/

[Torsten.]

I still don't understand ""... it will not let me do it...""!

[Ray Bell]

copy the large depot file to the file system.

[Steven Schweda]

Here. Let me try.

WHAT, EXACTLY, HAPPENS WHEN YOU RUN THAT
"cp" COMMAND?????

HINT: "it will not let me do it" DOES NOT
EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENS.


By the way, can we assume that the "cd" is
actually a DVD?