sw install of a CD Copy for OmniBack

[John D. Timmel]

I'm attempting to install HP OmniBack II on a remote HPUX V11.0 system. I copied the CD to the server, but I am not able to get swinstall to recognize the directory as having a valid depot software. Do I have to run the install with the CD there or use swdepot?

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

In swinstal
>local directory>/full_path/name_depot

[John D. Timmel]

I do not know where the depot files are, here is the directory tree as an attachment

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi John,
Perhaps the easist thing for you to do is mount the install CD on your local machine and export the /cdrom directory via NFS. You can then NFS mount the CD on your remote machine and as far as it's concerned, you are doing a local install.

Something like this:
On local machine (I'll call it elvis):
mount /dev/dsk/c2t2d0 /cdrom (your device is probably different)
edit /etc/exports
add a line
/cdrom -ro

then exportfs -a

on the remote machine
mount elvis:/cdrom /cdrom

swinstall -s /cdrom and you are now ready to install.

I assume that you have NFS enabled on both boxes.

Hope this helps, Clay

[John D. Timmel]

I just sent the CD to the remote site.
It seems I do not understand where to find in the directory structure of the CD (actually, the CD that I copied to the HP V11.0 file system)
this file listing is in an attachment on my previous post.

[Peggy Fong]

How did you copy the CD to your system? Since the directory you copied to is not recognized as a depot I suspect you did not do a "swcopy" from the CD? You can still follow the NFS option from previous post from your remote system. You can also have the CD mounted on the remote system and then do a "swcopy" from the cd mount point while logged into the remote system. You can specify any directory in a file system with enough space and swcopy will make any directories and sub-directories it needs. Once copied on the remote system you can do either a swinstall to install the software from the remote server or a swcopy to copy the depot from the remote system to your local system. "swcopy" automatically registers the depot so that swinstall will recoginize the "depot" or "directory"...

good luck
Peggy

[John D. Timmel]

I copied the whole CD directory structure with ftp. (Exceed's from my PC, binary copy) The directory structure and files on the system match what is on the CD. When I attempt to swcopy this location, I get:
There is currently no depot software on host "hp4" at location
"/hp4_disk1/OmniBack".
Anyway, at this point, I am waiting for the CD to arrive on site. Then it appears I will need to go through the task of getting the permanent license key for it.

[Peggy Fong]

That explains why swinstall does not recognize the directory as a depot. Usually swcopy from the CD will create the directory, deposit the software and register the depot.

Since you are waiting for the CD to arrive at the remote system, why don't you try registering the full path as a depot. Use the swreg command - I think the syntax is:
swreg

but check man on swreg for verify.

It may not work - but it can't hurt. There may be options missing in my example. To unregister is something like swreg -u

regards,
Peggy

[Bill Hassell]

No need to copy the CD or use NFS. SD utilities have their own networking and are far simpler to use than ftp or NFS (and more reliable). Simply mount the CDROM on a local server (or to share to a lot of clients, copy the CD to a 600 meg disk area -- use: cd /cdrom; find . | cpio -pudlmv /whatever

Once the data is available, simply register the depot with swlist:

swlist -l depot /whatever

That's it. Now every HP-UX machine on your network can see the depot. Try this on other machines:

swlist -l depot @ local-machine

You can use command line swinstall using the @ symbol or just go interactive and specify the source machine and select the Source Depot Path... box to present all the registered depots on the server.

[John D. Timmel]

Seems all or most of my problems were caused because I copied it from my Windows 2000 machine. Even though I used bianrycopy mode, the file names case under HPUX were different than what they were when I copied them via FTP in binary mode.
With the CD onsite, it works fine.
Thanks everyone for your efforts,
John