HPUX-11 Mount

[Betty Hardin]

This sounds stupid - I know. But - I have a CD that I am attempting to install from - when I mount it, everything is in uppercase. to attempt to get around this, I used pfs - messages indicate that pfs is not a valid option. I can't do the install with uppercase filenames. How can I mount the cd so that lowercase filenames are available?

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

mount -o cdcase option.

[Alan Meyer_4]

mount -o cdcase -F cdfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /cdrom

[Betty Hardin]

Oh duh ... I knew that. On my 2nd Thursday this week !

Thank you!

[Mahesh Kumar Malik]

Hi Betty

Run following deomons manually :

#pfs_mountd &
#pfsd &

then
#pfs_mount /device file /file system

good luck

Mahesh

[Betty Hardin]

It was the cdcase option

[Bill Hassell]

Just so you don't run into more problems, -ocdcase is a hack to reduce the case of ISO9660 directory entries and remove the ;1 version numbers. All CDROMs have this directory present (and several others too) but HP-UX only reads the ISO9660 directory. This means that all directory and file names will be limited to a maximum of 8 characters with a maximum of 3 character extensions or 8.3 for short.

Another hack was the PFS (Portable File System) product from Young Minds, Inc. It is a method to read the CDROM's other directories and present the extended directory and file names which are in the RockRidge directories. To present this to HP_UX, PFS uses NFS to import the data to the server, essentially NFS to itself. The code is quite unstable, especially for 11.0 and 11.11 and is nmever erecommended for use on a production server (can require a reboot).

For version 11.00 and 11.11, there are 3 patches which fix all this stuff. They have the search term: Rock Ridge and can be found at the ITRC website. Download all 3, load and the system will reboot with a new mount option: -orr. This is the correct and trouble-free way to mount non-HP-UX CDROMs.

From the patch website:

11.00
PHCO_26449
PHKL_26450
PHKL_28060

11.11
PHCO_25841
PHKL_26269
PHKL_32035

All 3 must be installed and in the "configured" state or the -orr option is silently ignored.