dummy cd-rom

[Kurtkarl]

hi,

I had this 3 directories named CDROM1, CDROM2 and CDROM3 and got the installation files on it. Now I had to run this installation script. During the installation it looks for mounted /cdrom which in this case we just copied the files orignally from the cd-rom on the directories I mentioned above.

How would I make the system know that this CDROM's directory are the mounted /cdrom he was looking during for?

Would there be a command to mount this directories as if it was an ordinary mounted /cdrom?

Thanks in advance
jose

[Rick Garland]

The script would need to know that the files are in different locations.
BTW, is this a script on the CDROM itself?
In which case, no need to copy the files to the HD, just leave them on the cdrom
and the script will know where to look for the files it needs.

Taking room on the HD by copying the files.

[Kurtkarl]

Rick,

thks for the quick reply, first we dont have a cdrom copy of this. We just got it from a tar file and produce this 3 directories when we untar it. We untar'ed this on our NFS directory so that other developer can install this software on their workstation.

When I run the installation script it has menus and one of the menu does is to locate the cdrom for he needs to know where to get the files needed during installation which in our case is on the directory.

Thanks
Jose

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

how about creating a soft link to the /CDROM1 directory

# ln -s /CDROM1 /cdrom

[Rick Garland]

Create a sym link to the directory.

[Kurtkarl]

kofi,

Tried it before but it only gives me an error "Specified device cannot be used".

Thanks
Jose

[Antoanetta Naghiu]

cdrom is cdfs file system, /cdrom is hfs or vxfs... I'm wonder if you try to make a newfs type cdfs in a logical volume... is or is not going to work? If that work you can copy the file there, but I doubt it....

[Kurtkarl]

guys,

I have manage to re-direct the script to use the actual directory. Anyway, thanks for all the replies. Really appreciate it. Anyways, just in case you were able to come up with a solution on the same problem please do let me know.

Thanks a lot
Jose

[Andy Monks]

You could try mounting the direcory the files are in under /cdrom

hp-ux support lofs. the command would be something like :-

mount -F lofs /cdrom