Problem reading CDROM drive after unmouting and mounting...

[Peter_186]

I'm running into an issue of installing 3rd-party software on an HP-UX 11.x sever. This server does not have a graphics card. The steps that I'm following are:

1. I mounted the cdrom drive on the server.
2. I copied the setup.sh file on the cd to /tmp (This was recommended by the vendor)
3. I ran the setup.sh file and it installed the appropriate files. It then prompted for CD#2 (there are 3 CDs).
4. On a laptop running Hummingbird Exceed I unmounted the cdrom drive and ejected the CD.
5. I then put in CD#2 and mounted the cdrom drive from Exceed.
6. Unfortunetly, the server is not reading the CD.

Please advise.

Thank you.

[Steven E. Protter]

You should ask HP to move this to HP-UX sysadmin, more people read there.

You are having trouble with the cd change because you have launched the install process from the cdrom filesystem. That makes the device busy and it can't be unmounted.

If the install program was /cdrom/install.sh

Don't do this:

cd /cdrom
./install.sh

Do this:

cd /
/cdrom/install.sh

If this isn't a manual operation look at the script setup.sh Its probably wrong and needs a small revision to run correctly.

I mount and unmount all cd's for installs from a regular old telnet session or ssh session. I eject them with the button on the front of the box after I've unmounted the cd.

I won't quote Bill Hassel concerning sysadmins and GUI's. But he knows what I'm thinking...

:-)

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