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Mounting on HP Itanium

Use the following information to mount the ISO file on HP Itanium platform.

Follow these steps:

  1. Download the free software depot ISOIMAGE-ENH from the HP software web-site. Install the software depot with swinstall.

    The above mentioned package also contains four patches to patch mount and umount commands to deal with CDFS format.

    Type the following command to install the depot:

    swinstall -s $PWD/ISIMAGE.depot
    
  2. Before mounting an ISO image load the Dynamically Loadable Kernel Module (DLKM) named fspd. To load and unload the fspd module after installing the depot, use the following commands:
  3. Mount the ISO image as follows:
    mount -F cdfs /tmp/CAGen85.HPIA64.iso /tmp_mnt
    
  4. To view the mount options, type the following command:
    mount -v | grep /tmp_mnt
    /dev/fspd1 on /tmp_mnt type cdfs imagepath=/tmp/CAGen85.HPIA64.iso inode=46218 residing on blockdevice 0x40000003, ro,rr,dev=6000001 on Thu Jan  3 15:12:41 2013