How do I burn a CD with an HFS layout?

[Anthony Kloppers_1]

I have read the ignite-ux docs and they start to explain the procedure to create a CD containing an HFS filesystem, then they stop short of explaining how to get the image onto a CD so that it is readable by an hp-ux system. I have tried many different types of cd writing software but without success. I sometimes do manage to get fstyp to report the CD as hfs, but when I try to mount it, it either hangs or comes back with an I/O error.

Has anyone had any success with this?

[Kenneth Platz]

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=4845

Here ya go.

[Eugene Klaus]

/sbin/newfs -F /dev/rdsk/c#t#d0

[Anthony Kloppers_1]

Hi Kenneth

I do not have cdrecord for hp-ux, but I did download it for PC. I have used it, but not with exactly the same paramters mentioned in the link. I will try it out as soon as I get the time. I am not trying to make a boot cd though, just a simple collection of files. the ignite docs use that extra step install_combine to concatenate the LIF area onto the CD - I do not need that, but maybe I should try to include the LIF area and who knows maybe it will mount correctly.

I will let you know how the testing goes.

Kind Regards
Anthony Kloppers.

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

can you explain, why you want 'to report the CD as hfs'?
To write CD's for UX you can create an image which you can write to CD at a pc or a ws.

Volkmar

[Anthony Kloppers_1]

Hi Volkmar

I have successfully burnt CD's on the PC and managed to mount them on hp-ux using a few different methods. I used mkisofs and created a rockridge format CD, I have also created other CDFS images overriding the ISO9660 limits. In the above cases though, I either have to have additional patches loaded on hp-ux, or use pfs mounts, both of which I am capable of doing, but I often create CD's for H/W engineers and sometimes end customers to use. I therefore want to try and avoid situations where the relevant patches may not be loaded, or lengthy telephone support simply trying to mount a CD.

I know there are workarounds - like tarring the source directory into a single file with a short 8.3 format filename, burning that onto CD and then letting the end-user untar the file. This however is not an elegant solution and requires additional disk space. Now if we can create a CD with hfs format, then I have NO limitations with filenames, I can create directory depots on the CD that will work AND the end user can easily mount the CD.

The ignite-UX docs indicate that this is possible. I do not need a boot area on my CD's though so I do not use the step to use install_combine. Here is a summary of steps I use:
lvcreate -L 270 -n archvol vg00
newfs -F hfs -f 2048 /dev/vg00/rarchvol
mkdir /tmpcd
mount /dev/vg00/archvol /tmpcd
find /var/sourcedir | cpio -pdumv /tmpcd
umount /tmpcd
dd if=/dev/vg00/rarchvol of=/var/tmp/fs_image_hfs bs=1024k
ftp fs_image_hfs to PC and burn with cdrecord or other utils. So far whenever I try to mount this CD on hp-ux, it either hangs or returns an I/O error. fstyp on the disk device file for the cdrom does report hfs though.

I hope this explains what and why I ma trying to do this.

Regards
Anthony.