Installing drivers on rp2400 w/out cdrom drive

[Carl_35]

I have a few rp2400s that do not have cdrom drives, and I can't get one to them. Given this, how do I pull drivers off the hpux 11.0 application cd in a usable form, so that I can move them to the machines and get them installed.

Specifically, I'm looking to install (at this point) btlan5 for the A5230A/B5509BA lan card.

Thanks!

[Michael Tully]

On the local system:

# mount /dev/dsk/cxdxtx /SD_CDROM

# swreg -l depot /SD_CDROM

# swagentd -r

On remote system:

# swinstall
Choose the depot from the remote server.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

You can swcopy them off of the Applications CD and onto your disk drive. YOu can then tar up that directory transfer it across to the appropriate machines, untar it, and swinstall the software.

You can invoke 'swcopy' and it will come up with and interactive interface that you can go through to copy what you need.

[Steven E. Protter]

You can set up a central installation point on disk(this would be faster) on a machine with cd. You could export the cd-rom on any HP-UX system as well.

On the machine acting as server, add an entry to the /etc/exports file indicating what you want to export.

If you want your depots to be in /download/depots, swcopy them there and add /download/depots to the /etc/exports file

Save it, run exportfs -a


The makes the nfs mount available.

On the client needing the patch.

mkdir /depot

mount server://download/depot /depot

All available software will be available in a nfs mount fs called /depot

Run bdf after the command and you'll see it.

SEP

[Carl_35]

*sigh*

I should never post late in the day when I haven't had enough coffee...

I forgot I had an 11.0 machine available with a cdrom on it.

Swcopy did the trick, since I can't mount anything over the network in our environment.

Thanks everyone!