[rescue] HP9000 rescue - copy HP-UX from DVD to CDs?

Jonathan J. M. Katz jon at jonworld.com
Thu Aug 12 19:59:38 CDT 2010


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Cory Bajus <cbajus at mts.net> wrote:
>  A J6000 followed me home the other day and I'd like to install HP-UX on
it.
>  The trouble is this system has a plain CD-ROM drive, and the only HP-UX
> media I have (11i v1) is on DVD.  Does anyone know of a way to extract the
> necessary contents from the DVD to write onto CDs?  Netbooting (using
> Ignite-UX) isn't possible as I don't have another HP-UX system to act as a
> server.

Per Google, the CD-ROM is ATAPI, so you should just be able to put a
DVD in and go.

http://www.alimartech.com/pdfs/J6000%20Data%20Sheet.pdf



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