CD to disk file transfer on HP-UX

After a long pause, and several projects later, I'm back getting ready our uxheaven.com (our back-room of variety of UNIX boxes, that will be used for training multi-vendor courses).

Today, it's configuring HP-UX boxes: one is the B.11.11 U9000, the other B.11.23 on Itanium.

Had to look up some of my old posts to fix various network settings, and I reckon the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file will now stay in my memory (sad - it takes few weeks and the detail is gone!).

Once the network was fine, needed to add software from CDs, to a central repository of documents and future depot files. For the time being, all I need is to have it all on hard disk. Quick refresher on the process:

1. Identify the special file for CD-ROM:

# ioscan -funC disk

showed it to be /dev/c1t0d0

2. Create mount point directory
I like the way Linux treats removable media, so my new mount directory became:

# mkdir -p /media/cdrom

3. Mount the disk:

# mount -F cdfs /dev/c1t0d0 /media/cdrom

4. Finally, create directory for the documents, and copy the CD content

# mkdir /usr/doc
# cp -rf /media/cdrom /usr/doc

Ready for use...