HP: Mounting HP CDs on foreign OSes

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