Hi guy's, my first post here on the forum
I did a quick search here, but did not find a direct hit, so decided to post my question.

I'm taking my first steps into AIX, and right now I'm trying to install some software that I've downloaded as a zip file, and have this extracted into a mounted NFS drive.

Now I was wondering if and how it is possible to mount that directory as a cdrom filesystem.

So basically I have:

root[spocb62m-5.3]/downloads/tivfwk14/TAM61/C1AV2ML

Well, you can't mount something "as CDROM" unless it actually *is* a CDROM. The reason is, that "CDROM" is (among other things) a certain filesystem format (known as "ISO 9660").

What you can do of course is mounting the filesystem read-only. Use the "-o ro" option to the mount-command for that purpose or export the directory as read-only, which is done in /etc/exports (run "exportfs -va" after changing the file to bring the changes into effect - or, better yet, as you say you are an AIX beginner - use "smitty exports" to make your changes via a guided-tour-interface).

I hope this helps.

bakunin

PS: on second thoughts, you need a file called ".toc" in the directory where you install from. It is created automatically by SMIT during the installation process, but if you mount the FS readonly it cannot be created. Run "inutoc ." in this case on the machine exporting the NFS share in the directory whith the installable packages. You do not need all this if the packages are all .rpm-packages. You only need to do it when installing native .bff-packages via "installp".

bakunin