Hello,

New to the board. Experienced solaris admin, unexperienced HP admin.

I'm trying to install the acc compiler package B3913DB off of the HP-UX 11.0 application software CD. I have the cd mounted on another system, and nfs mounted as /mnt on the HP-UX box.

I don't have a whole lot of experience with swinstall. I've tried:

swinstall -s /mnt
swinstall -s /mnt b3913db

And it's complaining that it's not a known depot.

Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

TIA

When you do "swinstall -s /mnt", the swinstall command checks to see if /mnt is a cdfs file system. If so, it knows the format and figues out where the depots are. Otherwise, /mnt must be a depot. You're supposed to use a local cd drive. If that's not possible, you may be able to locate the depot by looking around in /mnt. It might be a file ending in .depot. Or it might be a directory with a file called "catalog". And you must use full paths for depots. swinstall will look for a leading slash. If you see a potential depot, try:
swlist -s /path/to/depot

If this doesn't work, you may be able to swcopy the depot on the system with the local cd and use newly created copy. I have never done that but it seems like it might work.

I _could_ use a local cd, but I'm way too lazy to walk all the way up to the data center

Seriously though, there is a catalog directory in the root of /mnt, but not a catalog file. Is this what I should be looking for? I was able to install legato client using swinstall -s <nfs directory> without issues, but I can't with this cd for some reason....

I don't know if it's what your looking for or not. The way to find out is that swlist command. Too lazy for that too?