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HP: Mounting HP CDs on foreign OSes
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:Title:        HP: Mounting HP CDs on foreign OSes
:Author:       Douglas O'Leary <dkoleary@olearycomputers.com>
:Description:  HP: Mounting HP CDs on foreign OSes
:Date created: 06/18/2001
:Date updated: 06/18/2001
:Disclaimer:   Standard: Use the information that follows at your own risk.  If you screw up a system, don't blame it on me...

Here's the situation: I work in Chicago and support 50+ systems that are 
scattered across the country. I don't have a local HP system and I have all 
the application, patch, installation, what-have-you CDs here locally. I also 
have my handy-dandy, trusty Linux laptop with 2 (count 'em, 2) CD drives. 
How do I mount the HP CDs such that I can do swlist/install/etc off the 
remotely mounted CDs?

Normal mounts don't work - I kept getting the no sw depots on the source 
messages. Annoying. I finally posted a question to comp.sys.hp.hpux and got 
the answer

*  Mount the cd on the local drive::

      mount -o ro,norock,map=off /dev/cdrom /cdrom

   The secret is the norock,map=off. That turns off rock ridge formats and 
   filename remapping. Those two are what apparently kill the swdepots

*  Export the cd to the system of choice::

      exportfs -i ${system}:/cdrom

*  Mount the cd on the remote system::

      mount -o ro ${linux}:/cdrom /cdrom

*  swinstall/list to your heart's content::

      swlist -s /cdrom