Problem mounting an oracle cd, anyone encountered and got around this?

[mike worrell]

Hi all,
I'm trying to mount an oracle cd. They insttruct us to use the pfs_mountd and pfsd commands. Everytime I mount the cd I get this error after a few minutes and it hangs
NFS server XXXX not responding still trying NFS server is ok
Continuously scrolls on the screen.
In nfsconf , nfsserver is set to zero on all our boxes.
everytime I ever use an oracle cd and this pfs command i have a hard time, but this is the only time it has more or less hung up.
Any ideas on how to get around?
Thanks,
Mike

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Mike,

I'll quote directly from Merijn's website ( http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ ):

" Do not use pfs_mount!. Install the Rock-Ridge extension patches instead and never worry about these problems. For HP-UX 11.00 you will need forget all about PFS and install PHKL_26448 (now superceded by PHKL_28060), PHCO_26449, and PHKL_26450 to have HP-UX recognize those file systems automatically on mount! For HP-UX 11.11 (11i) you need PHCO_25841, PHKL_26269, and PHKL_25760 (now superceded by PHKL_28025).

No need thereafter to use -o cdfs to mount anymore, provided you enter the CD drive in /etc/fstab like this:

/dev/cd0 /cdrom cdfs ro,rr,noauto 0 0"


Pete

[Patrick Wallek]

If you have a recent general release patch bundle installed you may be able to mount the CD without using the pfs commands.

Try this:

# mount -F cdfs -o rr /dev/dsk/c?t?d? /cdrom

and see what happens. The '-o rr' is an addition to the mount command from a set of 3 patches. That allows you to mount the Oracle, or any other Rock Ridge format CDs, without using the pfs commands.

[Sundar_7]

Mike,

You need to have RPC/NFS daemons running in the system to be able to use pfs_mount.

As sugggeted above, the preferred method would be to install the Rock ridge extention patches and use mount command.

If for any reason you cannot install the patch then start the NFS core/server daemons in the system and try again.

Sundar

[mike worrell]

Thanks to you all, I did the patches and tried the mount command and all was looking good.