Re: Problem installing Oracle on HP System

One theory is that the cd is being interperted as an msdos filesystem instead of an iso9660 filesystem. That would be controlled from one of two places. The fstab file in /etc ( which is where its on my linux system -
hpux could be elsewhere, I don't remember ) or the command used to mount the cd may have specified
the wrong type of filesystem.

Jeff Stewart wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to install Oracle 8.05 on a HP series 9000 Unix server
> running HPUX 10.20. Apparently there is a problem with that
> particular version of Unix's CDROM filesystem support, because every
> filename on the CD is truncated to 8 letters, in upper case, and has a
>
> ";1" appended to the filename. This is apparently causes the install
> to fail. It cannot read in the terminal types, etc. When I install
> Oracle on a RS/6000, the filenames appear as they should be and I have
> no problem. I attempted to copy the CD's contents to the filesystem,
> and the install failed. I wrote a script to remove the ";1" and put
> the filenames in lowercase, but apparently the filename truncation is
> still causing the install to fail. Has anyone out there found a way
> around this problem? I would greatly appreciate any help/advice.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jeffrey Stewart
Received on Sun Feb 28 1999 - 17:27:17 CST