How to burn a HP style depot CD on PC?

[kai_11]

Hi,All
I want to burn a depot CD on PC using Nero.
I have known that a single depot file can be burned, but I prefet to burn a HP style application CD, that is,there are many directories on the CD and it can be installed or listed using SDUX commands. How can I do that?

Thanks a lot.

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

Simple.
Create bundle from your depots and burn it :)
Also after mounting your CD you must register it with swreg.

[kai_11]

Hi, Ivajlo
Could you give a detailed procedure?
ex.
1 swcopy
2 tar
3 ftp
4 ...

Thanks.

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

ok
I send you one script.
I use it for me to create mty depot

Copy all software in one dir, must be somesoftware.depot .
Copy script that I sent you in same dir
Edit script and change OS and other option that meet your bundle.
start script :)

[Ted Buis]

While I have, done this to a CD, I have created a single file that is "depot" style.
To do this I loaded the swpkgbuilder file set from the applications CD. You can also find this at: http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=SwPkgBuilder

Then I used the /usr/sbin/swpackage command.
Attached are instructions for making a tape.

[kai_11]

Hi, I use the following steps to burn a depot on PC
1 use swcopy to create a depot in directory /depot which includes several products
2 tar cvf my.tar /depot
3 ftp my.tar to the pc host
4 untar my.tar to a pc drive
5 use Nero to burn the extracted directory to CDR.

But when I mount the cd on hpux, the depot cannot be recognized. When I investigate the INDEX file in catalog directory, I find that there is a ^M at the end of each line.

Is it impossible to burn a CD which contains directory depot on the PC?

PS:
It's definitely that on XXX.depot file on the CD is OK. What if there are many directories?

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

if you have problem with ^M only burn your CD from Linux :))
You can use some CD based dist, no install needed :)

[V. Nyga]

Hi Jack,

to eliminate ^M you have to do a ux2dos at your ws first.

'ux2dos old_file>new_file'
then
'mv new_file old_file'
then tar it.

Volkmar

[V. Nyga]

Hi again,

generally to get a CD with UX directories I use 'mkisofs'.
This was my solution for a similar problem, I found it at www.nero.com, but it seems like my old link is too old.

I had to install patches (UX 11) for RockRidge and the tool mkisofs.
mkisofs creates an image at my UX ws that can be burned with Nero (Disk-Image-Option) on PC. No restictions about special character or multiple points in a name.
One option allows up to 32 characters, another the possibilty to read the RockRidge files also with PC's.

HTH
Volkmar

[V. Nyga]

http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/help/mkisofs/mkisofs.htm
or
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/mkisofs.8.html
It's also a part of HP-UX dvd+rw-tools:
http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayInstallInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXDVDWRITE

V.