mount iso files on HPUX

1. Download this depot 

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=ISOIMAGE-ENH

Overview


The ISOIMAGE-ENH product provides support for mounting and unmounting the International Standardization for Organization (ISO) Imagefiles using the mount(1M) and umount(1M) commands.


New Feature in this Release 


The ISOIMAGE-ENH product provides a new feature for mounting and unmounting the ISO imagefiles.


Because this product is delivered as a Dynamically Loadable Kernel Module (DLKM) named fspd, use the following commands to load and unload the fspd module after installing the depot: 


To load:
#kcmodule fspd=loaded 


To unload:
#kcmodule fspd=unused 


For more information on how to mount and unmount the ISO Imagefiles, see the mount_cdfs(1M) manpage after installing the PHCO_39675 mount_cdfs(1M) manpage patch. 


The ISOIMAGE-ENH product depends on the following patches: 
PHCO_39672 - mount_cdfs(1M) command patch
PHCO_39673 - mount(1M) command patch
PHCO_39674 - umount(1M) command patch
PHCO_39675 - mount_cdfs(1M) manpage patch

2. Installation

To install ISOIMAGE-ENH using the non-interactive method, enter the following command:


# swinstall -x reinstall=false -s <depot-path> ISOIMAGE-ENH


To install ISOIMAGE-ENH in the interactive mode, enter the following command:


# swinstall -x reinstall=false -s <depot-path> 

(swinstall -x reinstall=false -s /tmp/ISIMAGE.depot ISOIMAGE-ENH)

3. load the module

# kcmodule fspd=loaded

4. mount the iso file

mount -F cdfs /opt/HPUX11iv1Sep2005.iso /media/

If the fspd module are not loaded , the mount cmd will report an error:

-bash-4.0# mount /opt/HPUX11iv1Sep2005.iso /media
mount: /opt/HPUX11iv1Sep2005.iso is an invalid operand