[ale] OTQ - CDs, 'mkisofs', mixed-case filenames, and HP-UX

[John Mills]

Thanks to Darrell, Mike, and Jim for their suggestions.

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> John, are you running PCNFS on the HP-UX system?  If so are you using
> the -cdcase param when mounting the drive?

No - if this is an NFS mount of some sort, I don't know about it. I'll
look again and try '-cdcase'

Mike Still suggested,
 "Sounds like you need pfsd and pfsmountd"

I believe we're doing the former, but will recheck. There are some
suggestions in the HP docs, but they mainly suggest that CDs were an
afterthought for this platform and OS.

The 'full skinny' is:
1) We update a set of files for a remote installation, on an HP-UX-10.20
   box in our lab.
2) I export the fileset to a WinNT box with a CD burner, either:
 A. 'tar' them in HP-UX and 'untar' in WinNT, or else
 B. Run 'mkisofs' in HP-UX and move the resulting ISO image to the
    WinNT box and burn it directly onto the CD
3) I then mount the CD back on the HP-UX box and find I have lost
   mixed-case filenames, upon which the package depends.

There are several work-arounds naturally (We've sent *.tar.gz files on
CDs.), but it would ask less of our customer if they could move the
subdirectories straight from the CD to their installation.

Anyway, thanks to those who answered and I'll post a note if I find a
clean solution.

-- 
Regards -
 John Mills



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