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?

[Torsten.]

If you copy the file, e.g. by

# cp /cdrom/patch-delivery-13986.depot /system_space/

I would assume it takes several minutes (maybe 20, 30 or more) to finish.
It depends on the drive speed, but you did not tell what server you are using.

In a worst case or a USB 1.1 drive it may take more than 1 hour.

So did the copy start?
Was the file created in the target directory?

Why you say "it will not let me do it." - what leads you to this assumption?

[Torsten.]

Thanks Steven!

[Ray Bell]

When I run the copy command it come back instalnly and the other files on the cd will copy but the depot file will not copy to the file system. Did I make it clear for you all thsi time.

[Steven Schweda]

Sometimes it's like pulling teeth, and the
other fellow has hidden the pliers.

[Torsten.]

Any related message in syslog?

try if you can read the depot:

# swlist -s /cdrom/patch-delivery-13986.depot

[Patrick Wallek]

Where was the DVD created? What mount options are you using to mount it?

[Ray Bell]

There is no information in syslog related to copy command or cd-rom. I try the swlist command and here's the error message I received:

{clbsrv:Root}/cdrom-> swlist -s /cdrom/patch-delivery-13986.depot
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "clbsrv"...
ERROR: Cannot read 2048 bytes from source
"/cdrom/patch-delivery-13986.depot". Change the source
specified, or ensure the media is loaded and ready to read.
ERROR: "clbsrv:/cdrom/patch-delivery-13986.depot": exists, but the
information on it is corrupt. It is not tar format or it is
not the correct media.


I umount the cdrom drive and found out that it's a DVD. Are there any different option in mounted a dvd differnt than a cdrom?

[Ray Bell]

I have the following in the /etc/fstab

/dev/dsk/c3t2d0 /cdrom cdfs ro,suid 0 0

And from the command line I ran:
mount /cdrom

[Patrick Wallek]

>>ERROR: "clbsrv:/cdrom/patch-delivery-13986.depot": exists, but the
information on it is corrupt. It is not tar format or it is
not the correct media.


It sounds like the information on the DVD is corrupt for your patch depot.

Have you tried accessing the DVD from a PC? Can you FTP the depot file from a PC to your HP-UX server?

[Ray Bell]

I will try to do that later. I'm at home and do not have access to the server today.

[Dennis Handly]

>When I run the copy command it come back instantly.

What does "cksum patch-delivery-13986.depot" show?

[Ray Bell]

This is the results:

{clbsrv:Root}/cdrom-> cksum patch-delivery-13986.depot
4294967295 0 patch-delivery-13986.depot

[Torsten.]

please compare with contents of

patch-delivery-13986.sums

[Ray Bell]

{clbsrv:Root}/cdrom-> pg patch-delivery-13986.sums
The following checksums were computed for this delivery.

Checksums created using cksum(1).
2762561824 2335078400 patch-delivery-3986.depot
302801126 1294 patch-delivery-13986.README.txt

Checksums created using md5sum(1).
625338d3f92bb1f5dd4e01ad46a8945b patch-delivery-13986.depot
16be7828b131257ce9818a4300b89dde patch-delivery-13986.README.txt

As you see the value is different...

[Patrick Wallek]

>>4294967295 0 patch-delivery-13986.depot

This file definitely has a problem. The '0' is the size of the file.

You need to have the DVD recreated by whoever originally created it.