[nflug] Making A CD Into A Zip File While Preserving Permissions (A Bit OT)...

[Darin Perusich]

check if rpcbind, nfsd, mountd, lockd, and statd are running.

ps -aef |egrep "(rpc|nfs|mount|lock|stat)"



DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
> I'm getting the following error:
> 
> nfs mount: local_host: : RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Unable to receive
> nfs mount: retrying: /mnt
> 
> *Yes, I did change the "local_host" to the server name ;-)
> 
> 
>>>>Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com 02/17/06 3:39 PM >>>
> 
> are you planning on running NFS over the internet? i would not
> recommend 
> that if you where. as long as the remote server can talk/ping the
> remote 
> machine this isn't a problem.
> 
> on the local server:
> - insert the cd into the drive, it should mount at /cdrom/cdrom0.
> - add "share -F nfs -o ro /cdrom/cdrom0" to /etc/dfs/dfstab
>    echo "share -F nfs -o ro /cdrom/cdrom0" >> /etc/dfs/dfstab
> - start nfs.server script
>    /etc/init.d/nfs.server start
> - test that it's shared
>    mount local_server:/cdrom/cdrom0 /mnt
>    ls /mnt
> - if you see the contents of the cdrom unmount the nfs mount.
>    umount /mnt
> 
> on the remote server:
> - mount the nfs filesystem
>    mount local_server:/cdrom/cdrom0 /mnt
> - copy the cd to a remote directory
>    cd /mnt; tar -cf - . |(cd /dir/with/alot_of_space; tar -xf -)
> - when copy is complete unmount the nfs mount
>    umount /mnt
> 
> enjoy.
> 
> DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
> 
>>I have the CD in a local solaris server. Will NFS work to mount the
>>cdrom drive from the "out of state" servers? If so, what are the
> 
> exact
> 
>>commands?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>-Dan
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com 02/09/06 3:09 PM >>>
>>
>>you can steam line the below 2 steps into one.
>>
>>mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /path/to/file.iso` /mnt
>>
>>Robert Meyer wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>In Solaris, do a 'man lofi' to find out how loopbacks work.  You
> 
> will
> 
>>probably
>>
>>
>>>have to do something like:
>>>lofiadm -a file.iso /dev/lofi/1
>>>mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
>>>
>>>It will mount the CDrom image as /mnt in readonly mode.  Don't try
> 
> to
> 
>>make it
>>
>>
>>>read/write or bad things will happen.
>>>
>>>Hope this helps...
>>>
>>>Cheers!
>>>
>>>Bob
>>>
>>>
>>>--- DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI <dmagnuszewski at mandtbank.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>All,
>>>>
>>>>I have a dilemma. I have a CD for an application for a Solaris
>>
>>server.
>>
>>
>>>>The Solaris server is not in this state. In an effort to do this
> 
> from
> 
>>my
>>
>>
>>>>desk, I tried creating a zip file of all the contents of the CD on
>>
>>my
>>
>>
>>>>Windows XP workstation, and SCP'd the zip files over to the server.
>>
>>I
>>
>>
>>>>unzipped the file and began to install the application - all this
>>>>involves is running one shell script which will in turn run other
>>>>scripts. The CD contains scripts/files of various permission
> 
> levels.
> 
>>>>When I tried running the script, I kept getting errors about
> 
> various
> 
>>>>other scripts not being able to execute.
>>>>
>>>>Is there any way that I can zip/tar/copy all the contents of a CD
> 
> on
> 
>>a
>>
>>
>>>>Windows XP workstation, SCP it to a Solaris server, unzip/untar it,
>>
>>and
>>
>>
>>>>preserve the file permissions?
>>>>
>>>>Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>-Dan
>>>>
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> 

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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com
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