Ignite OS archive

[Adam Noble]

Hi hope someone can help.

I have an ignite server holding images of all our servers. I want to create an OS archive so that I can simply install a base OS onto a server already on the network. In order to do this I need to create an OS depot. This can be done with either make_depot or swcopy. The problem I'm having is that the Core OS CD is read only. The ignite documentation itself suggests it can be done yet it is failing saying it is read only. Any ideas?

[Steven E. Protter]

You don't need to be able to write to the cd to make an os archive.

If you wan't you can copy it to disk.

Or you can use this command:

stick the core os cd in the cdrom drive

mount /cdrom

swcopy -s /cdrom \* @ /location_of_os_image

SEP

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
A HP-UX CD is normally read only so this can't be the problem. Do you have the same problem with both methods ? Is the CD correct mounted ? Is it possible to list the content of the CD.

[Adam Noble]

That was the exact command I was using, HP have reccomended I change a file under /opt/ignite/lib called sd_opts and changed the following options because I was carrying this out remotely. The options if anyones interested were:_

swconfig.write_remote_files = true
swcopy.write_remote_files = true
swinstall.write_remote_files = true
swpackage.write_remote_files = true
swremove.write_remote_files = true


Seems to have resolved my problem!