swinstall depot after ux11i install

[Peter Gillis]

Hi.
I have just installed ux11i. Now need to install goldqpk11i. Everytime I issue command:
swinstall -s /cdrom/goldqpk11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true
I am getting response: /cdrom/goldqpk11i not a valid depot.
how can I get a valid depot? I know it will be easy points for someone.....
Maria

[Michael Tully]

Funny, I was just teaching someone else here how to do some patches. I would prefer using the TUI (terminal user interface) for patches, but anyway this should work.

swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true \*

[Peter Gillis]

hi Michael,
I tried that. I tried /cdrom. I also tried /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i and /cdrom/goldqpk11i

All had the same response.
I'm stumped.
Maria

[Michael Tully]

ok, let's try this then:
swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDBASE11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true \*

swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDAPPS11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true \*

[Peter Gillis]

Michael,

Same result..
here is screen dump...
# swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDBASE11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true

======= 07/29/04 11:52:23 EST BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive) (jobid=char-0012)
* Session started for user "root@char".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "char:/".
ERROR: There is currently no depot software on host
"char" at location
"/cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDBASE11i". Make sure that an absolute
pathname is specified for location (beginning with "/").
* Source connection failed for
"char:/cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDBASE11i".
WARNING: More information may be found in the daemon logfile on this
target (default location is
char:/var/adm/sw/swagentd.log).
* Selection had errors.
I've also tried registering the cd as a depot. All with the same result.

Any ideas .
Maria

[Patrick Wallek]

Well, try doing an 'ls -lR /cdrom' and see what exactly you have there. If you want, post the results and we can try to diagnose the problem a bit further.

[Peter Gillis]

Hello again...
I worked it out.!!!
Managed to umount /cdrom and then remount with the -r option. Then cd /cdrom and issued the swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true. Has installed and the system is currently rebooting. Reckon the original problem was the cdrom being mounted with the -o option and a number of processes hanging onto the device. Had to kill them!
Thankyou so much for your time in trying to help me out.
Maria

[Thorsten Kuhn]

Hi

same problem here.

Did
#mount -r -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /cdrom
and
#mount -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /cdrom

both ways I get the error message "There is currently no Depot Software on host..."

I also tried "Find local cdrom" at the Specify Source from swinstall Gui.

Thanks in advance
Thorsten

[venugopalakrishna.y.r]

hello,

mount your cd on /SD_CDROM mount point and then try installing patches.

venu

[Thorsten Kuhn]

Thanks it works now :)

#mount -r /dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /SD_CDROM

Why? /SD_CDROM special mount point for Software Depot???


Thanks
Thorsten

[Muthukumar_5]

swinstall is trying to analyse the absolute path on / as "/cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDBASE11i"
If you use -s then you have to use exact absolute path. You can use tape drives device path as an absolute one.
Not the special device of CD.. If you are going to make an operation depends upon a special device, you have mount it. To take a usage on those files.

And more swinstall -s option will handle only tap drive path depot's as path in disk's. and not in special devices..!!
swinstall did not success and prompted error's because of not obtaining the absolute path to take the depot.

-- muthu --