Custom Driver Bundles (please help me)

[Lee Harris_5]

Hello,

I need to know firstly if it is possible and secondly, if so how to create a custom driver bundle...

What I want is to take all of the NIC and HBA driver software bundles from the HP-UX 11.xx install / apps CD-ROMs and combine them all into one bundle which I can then burn onto a CD-ROM.

Oh yeah, and the second question is....whats the best way to burn a file to CD for use with HP-UX (I remember copying the Mar 04 Support plus CD for 11.00 once on Easy CD Creator under WinXP, and whenever I mounted the resulting copied CD in a HP9000 server it caused a kernel panic.... I mostly just kept it for lending to people after that.... oh how I laughed....).

Anyway, I eagerly await enlightenment from my fellow HPUX gurus....

Thanks - Lee

[Peter Godron]

Lee,
not sure about the driver bundle, but this may help:
http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-5309/5991-5309.pdf
Page 107 "Creating a custom bundle"

For CD creation please see:

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000074246532
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000079996711

[Lee Harris_5]

Sorry, worded that badly...

With regards the creation of a CD-ROM. I need to be able to create the CD on my laptop which is running Windows XP. We don't have any HP-UX machines with CD-RWs. But I need the CD created to be usable on a HP-UX system.

[Peter Godron]

Lee,
in that case:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=866672

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You will need to create ISO-9660 compatible CD's for HP-UX for best practices.

However to transfer files off of those support plus cd's using swcopy is necessary. That means you need an HP-UX machine.

Thats the supported way of going about it. If you properly mount the cd on a windows box you may be able to burn a proper CD readable by HP-UX.

You might find your options to mount the CD and copy things around are enhanced by using a Linux system for mounting/unmounting.

You can with a PC download the support plus "cd" to a windows or Linux computer from http://itrc.hp.com (support agremment may be needed), and then manipulate it and write a new CD if you use the proper format.

The right way to do it is however with the HP-UX machine.

SEP

[Tom Henning]

Lee:

What I would do:

swcopy all of the filesets you want on the CD off of the Support CD into one location/depot. This has to be done on a HP-UX machine.

Use mkisofs to generate an ISO-9660 image of the depot. This is done on the HP-UX machine, and use the mkisofs option for RockRidge extensions.

Copy the resultant ISO image file to the PC, using binary mode if using ftp.

Use your PC's burning software to hopefully burn the ISO image onto the media. Not sure about all of the packages out there but I do know the older version of Sonic I use does this without problems.

The resultant CD can be mounted on the HP-UX box using the mount -orr option to get "usable" filenames in place of the ISO-9660 standard 8.3:1 type filenames.

You can get mkisofs off of the net in multiple places, or I believe it's part of the CRTOOLS package at http://software.hp.com.

Good luck.

Tom

[Torsten.]

Hi,

if you want to burn files on a PC and use this CD on a HP-UX system, you should burn in the ISO 9660 Level 2 format (without joliet extensions!). This way you can use up to 31 characters.

Mount it using

mount -F cdfs -o cdcase dev/dsk/cxtxdx /cdrom

or just

mount -o cdcase dev/dsk/cxtxdx /cdrom