swinstall to an HPUX application CD mounted remotely on a Linux laptop

[heyu]

I insert an HPUX app CD in my Linux laptop. Export it. Then in my HPUX box, I can nfs mount to the CD. However, it seems swinstall doesn't recognize it. Why?
btw, I also tried pfs_mount but it doesn't work.

[Brian Bergstrand]

I would guess the CD is mounted with Rockridge extensions on Linux by default. SD CDs are expected to be std. ISO CD's, so the installer is probably not finding a file it needs. Have you checked /var/adm/sw/swinstall.log for errors?

[Brian Bergstrand]

Actually, thinking about this some more, this is probably a file name case problem. SD CDs are case sensitive. I bet Linux mounted the CD as case insensitive (as part of rockridge). SD CDs should be most if not all uppercase.

HTH.

[Network Servers]

I am not sure if you can do this. Normally you can only perform remote swinstalls from another HP system. This is because your source system (LINUX system) may not be running the Sofware-Distributor (SD-UX) daemon (swagentd).

Since HP currently teaches and supports LINUX, it may be that SD-UX is currently available to run on a LINUX system.

Unless you can do a 'ps-ef|grep swagent' on your LINUX system and find swagentd you may not be able to perform a remote swinstall.


Regards,

Arnold Rico

[Jay Pharis]

On the linux machine, you need issue the mount as such:

mount -o norock,map=off,unhide /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1

and it works.