install software without a cdrom ..

[someone_4]

Hello ,
I have an A-Class server without a cdrom that I would like to install some software from an application cd.What is the best way to do this?

Richard

[Bernie Vande Griend]

You should be able to mount a CD from another system (if you have one).

Another option would be to copy the data off the CD on another system to a filesystem that you could then NFS mount or tar and ftp over.

[someone_4]

yes I have other systems with cd roms .. how do I mount over a network?

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

You can use NFS but if this is an HP CD you are using, just register the mounted CD on the local system, something like:

mount /dev/dsk/c1t2d3 /cdrom
swreg -l depot /cdrom

And that's it. Now go to any HP-UX system on your network and run swinstall and tell it you want to use the Network depot on your server with the CD mounted. This is much more reliable than NFS and a lot simpler on the client side.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

Follow these steps
(Knowledge Base document #A5486201: )

A. Perform these steps on the local system:

1. nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &

2. nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &

3. Add the filesystem to /etc/pfs_fstab

4. Add the filesystem to /etc/pfs_exports

5. pfs_exportfs -a

6. pfs_mount /cdrom

B. Perform these steps on the remote system:


1. nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &

2. nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &

3. pfs_mount -o xlat=unix remotesystemA:/cdrom /localmnt_pnt


Goodluck,

-USA..

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

Thanks Bill! for the new way mounting HP CD.

[someone_4]

that was great stuff there Bill! ..

thanks

Richard