copying install cd's

mike (mmilewski@comcast.net) once said:
[color=blue]
> copy all the IRIX CD's to a temp harddrive (its
> like 3-4 gigs),[/color]

How exactly is this done?

In his 'Network Install' page, Ian M. mentions the need to include the
install cd (EFS formatted) volume headers so they can boot, so use dd
(with params). Elsewhere mention is made of using a 'straight dump'.
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Ian ...... a remote disk file system contained local copies of all[/color][/color]
the relevant 6.5
media.

The rest of his article seems straightforeward and thorough. But how
were these copies placed on the remote machine in the first place?
--
sp
~~~~

--

dd off a copy of the cd's
mount all the partitions on the cd and copy all the files out into
directorys under your installation directory.

easy as that :-)

you can even use fdisk on linux to inspect the partitions in the cd image
:-)

*********************
Khalid Schofield
System Administrator / EM Technician
Dept. Of Materials
University Of Oxford
Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PH

Email: [email]khalid.schofield@materials.ox.ac.uk[/email]
Tel: 01865 273785
Fax: 01865 283333
Web: [url]http://www-em.materials.ox.ac.uk/people/schofield/index.html[/url]


On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 [email]sweepea@kickapoo.com[/email] wrote:
[color=blue]
> mike (mmilewski@comcast.net) once said:
>[color=green]
> > copy all the IRIX CD's to a temp harddrive (its
> > like 3-4 gigs),[/color]
>
> How exactly is this done?
>
> In his 'Network Install' page, Ian M. mentions the need to include the
> install cd (EFS formatted) volume headers so they can boot, so use dd
> (with params). Elsewhere mention is made of using a 'straight dump'.
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> Ian ...... a remote disk file system contained local copies of all[/color][/color]
> the relevant 6.5
> media.
>
> The rest of his article seems straightforeward and thorough. But how
> were these copies placed on the remote machine in the first place?
> --
> sp
> ~~~~
>
> --
>
>[/color]

[email]sweepea@kickapoo.com[/email] wrote:
[color=blue]
> In his 'Network Install' page, Ian M. mentions the need to include the
> install cd (EFS formatted) volume headers so they can boot, so use dd
> (with params). Elsewhere mention is made of using a 'straight dump'.[/color]

no need, just mount the cds and copy all data from them on to the disk.

use the official SGI install guide, it is the best:

[url]http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi/0650/bks/SGI_Admin/books/IA_InstLicns/sgi_html/ch02.html#LE81158-PARENT[/url]

IRIX Admin: Software Installation and Licensing
(document number: 007-1364-140 / published: 2003-11-07)

it describes exactly how to set up a network install server, i have used
this method for perfect results everytime.

r15k

r15k wrote:[color=blue]
>
> [email]sweepea@kickapoo.com[/email] wrote:
>[color=green]
> > In his 'Network Install' page, Ian M. mentions the need to include the
> > install cd (EFS formatted) volume headers so they can boot, so use dd
> > (with params). Elsewhere mention is made of using a 'straight dump'.[/color]
>
> no need, just mount the cds and copy all data from them on to the disk.
>
> use the official SGI install guide, it is the best:
>
> [url]http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi/0650/bks/SGI_Admin/books/IA_InstLicns/sgi_html/ch02.html#LE81158-PARENT[/url]
>
> IRIX Admin: Software Installation and Licensing
> (document number: 007-1364-140 / published: 2003-11-07)
>
> it describes exactly how to set up a network install server, i have used
> this method for perfect results everytime.
>
> r15k[/color]

That SGI documentation is nice, but it means you have to open up services (bootp or tftpd)
that I know we don't have enabled or like to. But you can still do the 'distribution
disk' method. We just have a big 73Gb disk in one of our Origin's that's got an outlay
like this:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 17 2003 6.5.17_Applications ->
sw/812-0877-017/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 17 2003
6.5.17_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4 -> sw/812-0818-017/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 17 2003 6.5.17_Overlays_2_of_4 ->
sw/812-0819-017/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 17 2003 6.5.17_Overlays_3_of_4 ->
sw/812-0817-017/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 17 2003 6.5.17_Overlays_4_of_4 ->
sw/812-1123-017/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 14 2003 6.5.18_Applications ->
sw/812-0877-018/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 14 2003
6.5.18_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4 -> sw/812-0818-018/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 14 2003 6.5.18_Overlays_2_of_4 ->
sw/812-0819-018/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 14 2003 6.5.18_Overlays_3_of_4 ->
sw/812-0817-018/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 14 2003 6.5.18_Overlays_4_of_4 ->
sw/812-1123-018/

(just a snapshot... there's a lot of stuff on this disk)

I organized it this way per suggestion from one my local SGI sse's. The 'sw/xxx-xxxx-xxx'
number is the part number of the actual CDROM. Then in each one of those directories I
just copy recursively the contents of the CDROM in question (since we have support on at
least one system, I just use that system's serial number each quarter to open up a case
and request the latest overlay CD's. I rarely use them, but it's nice having at least on
copy on hand).

Then you just create a file call '.related_dists' and put something like this in it:

6.5.17_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
6.5.17_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
6.5.17_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
6.5.17_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
6.5.17_Applications/dist


6.5.18_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
6.5.18_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
6.5.18_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
6.5.18_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
6.5.18_Applications/dist

(and of course you have to have the base cd's)
IRIX_6.5_Foundation-1/dist
IRIX_6.5_Foundation-2/dist
IRIX_6.5_Development_Foundation_1.2/dist
IRIX_6.5_Development_Libraries/dist
ONC3_NFS_Version3/dist
IRIX_6.5_Applications_June_1998/dist

So when I want to install a package, or upgrade an OS, I just nfs mount this disk on the
machine in question, cd into the mount point, and run 'inst -f .'. Choosing '1' and
telling it '.' for the location will give you an output similiar to this:

Install software from: [.]

.. has the following sections.
Please choose one or more names or numbers, by entering
them all on one line. For example: 1-3 4 <Enter>

1 ./IRIX_6.5_Foundation-1/dist
2 ./IRIX_6.5_Foundation-2/dist
3 ./IRIX_6.5_Development_Foundation_1.2/dist
4 ./IRIX_6.5_Development_Libraries/dist
5 ./ONC3_NFS_Version3/dist
6 ./IRIX_6.5_Applications_June_1998/dist
7 ./6.5.18_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
8 ./6.5.18_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
9 ./6.5.18_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
10 ./6.5.18_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
11 ./6.5.18_Applications/dist
12 ./6.5.17_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
13 ./6.5.17_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
14 ./6.5.17_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
15 ./6.5.17_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
16 ./6.5.17_Applications/dist
17 quit (no additional distributions, return to inst prompt)

Install software from: [./IRIX_6.5_Foundation-1/dist]

Then you just choose what you want, watch it load up and start having fun! This method is
sooooooo much easier than the 'CDROM-swapping game method' as I like to playfully call it.

-chris

--
Chris Jones
ASDC Senior Systems Administrator
---------------------------------
Did you konw taht the hmuan biran can raed wrods no
mtater waht odrer the lteters are in as lnog as the
fisrt and lsat lteters are croerct?

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:26:04 UTC, <sweepea@kickapoo.com> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
> > copy all the IRIX CD's to a temp harddrive (its
> > like 3-4 gigs),[/color]
>
> How exactly is this done?
>[color=green]
>> ...... a remote disk file system contained local copies of all
>> the relevant 6.5 media.[/color]
>[/color]

Thanks Khalid and r15k. I must keep reminding myself that this is a
network concept, even though I'm starting out with just one box with a
blank harddrive. And the other boxes are similarly devoid of content.
--
sp
~~~~

--

Christopher Jones said:

From: Christopher R. Jones (c.r.jones@larc.nasa.gov)
Subject: Re: copying install cd's (for network install server)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
Date: 2004-02-06 09:57:16 PST

........
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 14 2003
6.5.18_Overlays_3_of_4 ->
sw/812-0817-018/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 14 2003
6.5.18_Overlays_4_of_4 ->
sw/812-1123-018/

(just a snapshot... there's a lot of stuff on this disk)

I organized it this way per suggestion from one my local SGI sse's.
The 'sw/xxx-xxxx-xxx'
number is the part number of the actual CDROM. Then in each one of
those directories I
just copy recursively
[color=blue][color=green]
>>SP| cp -r <or> cp -R <etc???>[/color][/color]

the contents of the CDROM in question (since we have support on at
least one system, I just use that system's serial number each quarter
to open up a case
and request the latest overlay CD's. I rarely use them, but it's nice
having at least on
copy on hand).

Then you just create a file call '.related_dists' and put something
like this in it:

6.5.17_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
6.5.17_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
6.5.17_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
6.5.17_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
6.5.17_Applications/dist


6.5.18_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
6.5.18_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
6.5.18_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
6.5.18_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
6.5.18_Applications/dist

(and of course you have to have the base cd's)
IRIX_6.5_Foundation-1/dist
IRIX_6.5_Foundation-2/dist
IRIX_6.5_Development_Foundation_1.2/dist
IRIX_6.5_Development_Libraries/dist
ONC3_NFS_Version3/dist
IRIX_6.5_Applications_June_1998/dist
[color=blue][color=green]
>>SP| Where should this file go?[/color][/color]

So when I want to install a package, or upgrade an OS, I just nfs
mount this disk on the
machine in question, cd into the mount point, and run 'inst -f .'.
Choosing '1' and
telling it '.' for the location will give you an output similiar to
this:

Install software from: [.]

... has the following sections.
Please choose one or more names or numbers, by entering
them all on one line. For example: 1-3 4 <Enter>

1 ./IRIX_6.5_Foundation-1/dist
2 ./IRIX_6.5_Foundation-2/dist
3 ./IRIX_6.5_Development_Foundation_1.2/dist
4 ./IRIX_6.5_Development_Libraries/dist
5 ./ONC3_NFS_Version3/dist
6 ./IRIX_6.5_Applications_June_1998/dist
7 ./6.5.18_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
8 ./6.5.18_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
9 ./6.5.18_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
10 ./6.5.18_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
11 ./6.5.18_Applications/dist
12 ./6.5.17_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
13 ./6.5.17_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
14 ./6.5.17_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
15 ./6.5.17_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
16 ./6.5.17_Applications/dist
17 quit (no additional distributions, return to inst prompt)

Install software from: [./IRIX_6.5_Foundation-1/dist]

Then you just choose what you want, watch it load up and start having
fun! This method is
sooooooo much easier than the 'CDROM-swapping game method' as I like
to playfully call it.

-chris

--
Chris Jones
ASDC Senior Systems Administrator
--
[color=blue][color=green]
>>SP| Thanks![/color][/color]

[email]sweepea@kickapoo.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Christopher Jones said:
>
> From: Christopher R. Jones (c.r.jones@larc.nasa.gov)
> Subject: Re: copying install cd's (for network install server)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
> Date: 2004-02-06 09:57:16 PST
>
> .......
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 14 2003
> 6.5.18_Overlays_3_of_4 ->
> sw/812-0817-018/
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 15 Mar 14 2003
> 6.5.18_Overlays_4_of_4 ->
> sw/812-1123-018/
>
> (just a snapshot... there's a lot of stuff on this disk)
>
> I organized it this way per suggestion from one my local SGI sse's.
> The 'sw/xxx-xxxx-xxx'
> number is the part number of the actual CDROM. Then in each one of
> those directories I
> just copy recursively
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>SP| cp -r <or> cp -R <etc???>[/color][/color][/color]

Sorry.... I used 'cp -pr'
[color=blue]
>
> the contents of the CDROM in question (since we have support on at
> least one system, I just use that system's serial number each quarter
> to open up a case
> and request the latest overlay CD's. I rarely use them, but it's nice
> having at least on
> copy on hand).
>
> Then you just create a file call '.related_dists' and put something
> like this in it:
>
> 6.5.17_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
> 6.5.17_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
> 6.5.17_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
> 6.5.17_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
> 6.5.17_Applications/dist
>
> 6.5.18_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
> 6.5.18_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
> 6.5.18_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
> 6.5.18_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
> 6.5.18_Applications/dist
>
> (and of course you have to have the base cd's)
> IRIX_6.5_Foundation-1/dist
> IRIX_6.5_Foundation-2/dist
> IRIX_6.5_Development_Foundation_1.2/dist
> IRIX_6.5_Development_Libraries/dist
> ONC3_NFS_Version3/dist
> IRIX_6.5_Applications_June_1998/dist
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>SP| Where should this file go?[/color][/color][/color]

Sorry again... :) for me, all of this lives under a filesystem called /sgi_os_software
(at that level you have the soft links to the 'sw/xxx-xxxx-xxx' directories. So the
..related_dists file is at /sgi_os_software/.related_dists.
[color=blue]
>
> So when I want to install a package, or upgrade an OS, I just nfs
> mount this disk on the
> machine in question, cd into the mount point, and run 'inst -f .'.
> Choosing '1' and
> telling it '.' for the location will give you an output similiar to
> this:
>
> Install software from: [.]
>
> .. has the following sections.
> Please choose one or more names or numbers, by entering
> them all on one line. For example: 1-3 4 <Enter>
>
> 1 ./IRIX_6.5_Foundation-1/dist
> 2 ./IRIX_6.5_Foundation-2/dist
> 3 ./IRIX_6.5_Development_Foundation_1.2/dist
> 4 ./IRIX_6.5_Development_Libraries/dist
> 5 ./ONC3_NFS_Version3/dist
> 6 ./IRIX_6.5_Applications_June_1998/dist
> 7 ./6.5.18_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
> 8 ./6.5.18_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
> 9 ./6.5.18_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
> 10 ./6.5.18_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
> 11 ./6.5.18_Applications/dist
> 12 ./6.5.17_Installation_Tools_and_Overlays_1_of_4/dist
> 13 ./6.5.17_Overlays_2_of_4/dist
> 14 ./6.5.17_Overlays_3_of_4/dist
> 15 ./6.5.17_Overlays_4_of_4/dist
> 16 ./6.5.17_Applications/dist
> 17 quit (no additional distributions, return to inst prompt)
>
> Install software from: [./IRIX_6.5_Foundation-1/dist]
>
> Then you just choose what you want, watch it load up and start having
> fun! This method is
> sooooooo much easier than the 'CDROM-swapping game method' as I like
> to playfully call it.
>[/color]

Hope that helps.... this setup is a major timesaver for me. :)

-chris

--
Chris Jones
ASDC Senior Systems Administrator
---------------------------------
Did you konw taht the hmuan biran can raed wrods no
mtater waht odrer the lteters are in as lnog as the
fisrt and lsat lteters are croerct?