CD-ROM Mount Problem

[vselvaraj]

Hi All,

I am having MWA Trial CD from HP,
I tried to mount but I am not able to mount it
properly, there is no instructions for the Mount options.

I tried the follwoing

1. mount /mount_dir
2. mount -F cdfs /mount_dir
3. mount -o cdcase /mount_dir

In none of the above I could install the s/w.
i tried mounting the same in LINUX all files are looking OK.

In HPUX system in all the cases the files names are ending either
with . (dot) or ! (escallamatory)

Anyother options are there to mount the CDROM?
Is anybody done this allready.
please help me out

thanks in advance
Selva...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You need to do a Portable File System mount (pfs).

The following documents should help you:

# KBAN00000252 (PFS to mount Oracle, Rockridge and most PC formatted CD-ROM 11.x)

or:

# KBAN00000197 (PFS to mount Oracle, Rockridge and most PC formatted CD-ROM 10.x)

...JRF...

[Rita C Workman]

Try (logged in as root) the sometimes called RockRidge format:

First check and see if /etc/pfs_fstab looks like this:
/dev/dsk/c_t_d_ /cdrom pfs-rrip xlat=unix 0

#nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &
#nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &
#/usr/sbin/pfs_mount /cdrom


...on some older systems (like T500) the last line would look like:

#/usr/sbin/pfs_mount /dev/dsk/c_t_d_ /SD_CDROM

TO UMOUNT THE CD

#/usr/sbin/pfs_umount /cdrom


/rcw

[vselvaraj]

Hi

i am very sorry,
the commands which you had told that is
pfs_mount I tried already before get in to this forum itself,

Still I tried again still I am having the problem.

please revert back

selva..

[Mark Vollmers]

Hi-

I don't know if this will help, but I use a combination of two of the ones you have tried:

mount -F cdfs -o ro,cdcase /dev/dsk/c#t#d# /cdrom

Also, one time I mounted the drive just using mount /dev/dsk/c#t#d# /cdrom and all of the file names on the disk had a ~1 appended to the end of the name. When I mounted the drive the way I normally do, the ~1 disappeared, so you may be seeing the . or ! because it is not being mounted correctly.

Mark

[vselvaraj]

Hi,

This method of mounting(with cdfs option)also didn't work out.
Anyother option can be provided by someone?..

Thanks and Regards.

[Marco Varenkamp]

Hi,
I've had the same problem before.
I solved it by using a different mount_dir
hope that helps
Marco

[vselvaraj]

Had tried with different directories and even in different servers, still it persists.

Thanks.

[Stefan Schulz]

As you could mount this CD in LINUX why don't you just mount it there and export this directory. So you should be able to read this CD over the network on you HP-UX box.

Or you can rcp / ftp the necessaryfiles to the HP-UX box.

Linux does support an awful lot of different filesystems, much more than HP-UX does. If this is a one time problem i would not spend to much time on solving. Even if this is an interesting problem i would just copy the files using a Linux box and forget about it.

Regards Stefan

[vselvaraj]

Hi Stefan,

You are right, I tested in LINUX box which is there with me not in Office.

Unfortunately I don't have any Linux box at the customer Place where I wanted to do the installation.Moreover I can't convenience customer for this.

That was the reason why I am here now from yesterday.

Still my thanks for Ur Suggestion.

Regards,
Selva...

[Pier Pasini]

You can just try to use SAM (System Administration Manager) to mount the cdrom. I did it and it works.

[william h mcchesney]

the best way to do this if your on 11.00 is this:

mkdir /cdrom
mount -r /dev/rdsk/cxtxdx /cdrom

then use swinstall

any questions-let me know

[vselvaraj]

Hi,
See the Files after Mounting , And I need to install using the "install.prf"

total 164
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 17202 Sep 6 22:06 README.;1
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 2761 Jul 25 1997 TESTDOC.PS;1
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 3746 Sep 6 22:07 VERSIONS.;1
dr-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 2048 Sep 6 22:09 glance
-r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 43760 Aug 29 22:29 install.prf;1
dr-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 2048 Sep 6 22:11 messages
dr-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 2048 Sep 6 22:11 mwa
dr-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 2048 Sep 6 22:14 pak
dr-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 2048 Sep 6 22:14 patches
dr-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 2048 Sep 6 22:14 pv



Any clues

Selva...

[Stefan Schulz]

Perhaps you can use your Linuxbox to copy the necessary files to a new CD?

For problems like this i have a small notebook running Linux which can be easily carried everywhere.

Or with some handwork to do, you cold copy the necessary files and directories to the local filesystem and rename all files. Depends on how much files you have to edit if this is practicable.

BTW: How about assigning some points?

[vselvaraj]

Thanks for all.

The Problem was due to the CDROM only.
I got another CD from HP, which is working fine
now.

Thanks once again to all.

Selva...