mounting an iso image file

[Howard Nebeck]

Hello,
I'm installing a third party application on a B1000 running HP-UX 11. The software has been downloaded as an iso image file.
I am instructed to "mount" this file, then use its contents for the installation.

I've found information about how to accomplish such a mount under
Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, but not HP-UX.

How do I "mount" an iso image file (as a filesystem) under HP-UX 11?

TIA,
Howard Nebeck
howard.e.nebeck@boeing.com

[Vincent Stedema]

Hi,

Don't think you can. So you can either mount the image on a Linux box and set it up as an NFS server or you can burn the image to a CD.

HTH.

Regards,

Vincent

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi

You don't actually mount a file, you can mount a directory containing software onto a filesystem, in your case iso format. I take it the software you have downloaded is a directory containing software.

You can mount an iso image with the below :

to mount an ISO 9660 image located at
onto the file system / enter:

# mount -F cdfs -o cdcase

The "-F cdfs" option indicates this is the CDFS file system type.
The "-o cdcase" option suppresses the display of version numbers
and the semicolon and converts file names to lower case.

The above is really for iso image from a cdrom. Give it a go.

HTH

Steve

[John Poff]

Hi,

One way to get it mounted is to use the 'pfs_mount' command, if you have the PFS software installed on your system. Also, there is a recent patch available that includes the pfs mount capabilities into the regular mount command. The patch requires a reboot but it might be worth it.

The pfs_mount command would look something like this:

pfs_mount -t iso9660 /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0 /cdrom

Assuming that your CD-ROM drive is c0t6d0 and that you have a /cdrom mountpoint.

JP