swinstall: tlinstall is searching filesystem - please be patient

[Daniel M. Gonzales]

On some of my systems, swinstall will run a VERY long time. On other systems (for the same package), it will run very quickly. The part where swinstall takes a long time is at...

"tlinstall is searching filesystem - please be patient"

Anyone know why and what can be done to speed it up? Thanks.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

#swinstall -x mount_all_filesystem=false -s /path
where /path is the absolute path to the source

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

#swinstall -x mount_all_filesystems=false -s /path
where /path is the absolute path to the source

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

One or more one or more of your transition links was missing and 'tlinstall' was initiated to correct this.

Transition Links appeared in 10.0 when the filesystem layout for HP-UX was redrafted. You can see two of the principal links directly off the root directory:

# bin -> /usr/bin
# lib -> /usr/lib

You will note that the permissions show as "lr-xr-xr-t" clearly indicating a symbolic (soft) link. The lowercase "t" in this case signifies a "transition link".

Once run, it should not be necessary for 'tlinstall' to run again. You will find the executable in '/opt/upgrade/bin/tlinstall' and man pages in /opt/upgrade/share/man/man1M.Z'.

You can also run 'tllist' to see all the transition links on your system.

Regards!

...JRF...