Mounting CDs on HP-UX

You should consult your HP-UX documentation for full details of how to mount a CD on your system.

If the WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker for HP-UX CD is mounted incorrectly, some of the files cannot be read. This causes the installation to fail with corrupt directory errors. It is important that you check that the CD is mounted with Rockridge extensions enabled.

The WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker for HP-UX CDs have the format ISO 9660, with Rockridge extensions enabled. If volume management software is in use, the CD mounts automatically when you insert it into the CD-ROM drive. Alternatively, you can mount the CD as follows:

  1. Log on as root.
  2. Create a CD-ROM mount point directory that is accessible to all users, for example:
    mkdir /cdrom
    chmod 777 /cdrom
  3. Mount the CD-ROM drive on the mount point directory. To use the pfs_mount command, NFS must be running:
    /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &
    /usr/sbin/pfsd 4 &
    To mount a CD-ROM that supports Rockridge extensions, use the following command:
    /usr/sbin/pfs_mount -t rrip /dev/dsk/cdrom device /cdrom
    where cdrom device is the CD-ROM location, for example, c0t0d0.