installing netscape in 10.20 environment

[Cecil Funderburk_1]

I am trying to install Netscape 4.79 in an HP-UX 10.20 environment. I have mounted the external cd-rom and can see the files on the cdrom using the cd /SD_CDROM then I did a 'pwd' I try to run it from the directory and get this message
'script intrepreter "/bin/sh" not found'
and
/script interpreter link resolves to "/usr/bin/sh"

Cannot execute "/CD_CDROM/NS-INS~1;1

[Cecil Funderburk_1]

what should I type at the terminal window and SAM just tells me that the CDROM is not a valid Depot

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Try this.

#umount /SD_CDROM
#mkdir /cdrom
#mount -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c2t2d0 /cdrom

If this does not work, then you may have to pfs_mount the CD. I assume the CD is in rrip format.

Edit /etc/pfs_fstab and add the following entry

/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 /cdrom pfs-rrip xlat=unix 0 0

#nohup pfs_mountd&
#nohup pfsd&
#pfs_mount /cdrom

Once you are done, make sure you do a pfs_umount.

-Sri

[Cecil Funderburk_1]

ok I tried it but it did not work. Ok I need to give the exact situation: I down-loaded Netscape 4.79 for HP-UX 10.20 from their web site as a zip file on a windows machine. I unzip it into a windows folder and I burned the contents of the folder to a cd. I can mount the CD, I can open and veiw the readme~1.ins file, I can read the ns-ins~1 executable file, ok now when I click on the file to execute it a box comes up asking for Options and Arguments that I leave blank ( I think I am suppose to put something there but I dont know what information to put in each heading) and click ok. I should say that my PWD is / or root dir, now the box lights role around a run windows come up that says ( script interpreter "/bin/sh" not found), ( script interpreter link resolves to "/usr/bin/sh"), and (cannot execute "/cdrom/ns-in~1. I hope you could help me load netscape.

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi,

I think you need to pass to HP-UX the file.zip without uncompress it, and uncompress it into HP-UX.

You can get the unzip command for HP-UX from:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/unzip-5.50/

HTH
Frank

[Cecil Funderburk_1]

that would be nice if the HP-UX box could connect to the Internet with a browser which it does not have.

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi,

You can do the same you have made before,

Download the unzip depot from the url i told you in windows. Write it down to a CD and pass it to HP-UX.

HTH
Frank.

[Cecil Funderburk_1]

ok Frank I do appreciate your help but you are not answering the question and the netscape files have a .jar, .nif file extentions with and ns-install executable file truncated to ns-ins~1 the files do not have a .ZIP extention.

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi Cecil,

Perhaps you are all right but let me to paste some pieces from your post:

"Ok I tried it but it did not work. Ok I need to give the exact situation: I down-loaded Netscape 4.79 for HP-UX 10.20 from their web site as a zip file on a windows machine. I unzip it into a windows folder and I burned the contents of the folder to a cd. I can mount the CD..."

Well, Why not burn the zip file instead of uncompress in the windows machine?

Burn this zip file with the depot file for the unzip for HP-UX.

Then mount the cd from HP-UX, install the unzip from depot and unzip netscape into HP-UX, this way you cannot have problesm with file names.

Sorry if it is not that you want, but perhaps i dont explain very well because i don't speak english at all.

My apologizes if it is not the correct answer.

Frank.

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Last time I checked, you can still get Netscape 4.79 for HP-UX from http://software.hp.com (try a search on "browser"). This will give you a SD depot that you should be able to install with minimal pain.


Pete

[Cecil Funderburk_1]

Pete thank you, thank you, you have come to my rescue again and you know I was looking over the patches for my system and I see these files have the .depot extention on them. The files that I got from Netscape I have been pulling out my hair and have been trying to build them into a software depot(EEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR) Once again thank you

Cecil