If there's a space in the filename, either put a backslash in front of it,
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On 10/25/07 1:07 PM, "Paul Noble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're probably right about his knowledge transfer. Part of it is my fault, or
> at least the circumstances. After he left, I didn't have a chance to do much
> real work on the Linux machines, so the knowledge didn't sink in as well as it
> should/could have.
>
> Anyway, I tried your mount command. I'm pretty sure that I copied it
> correctly, but it doesn't seem to like it. It immediately gives me a brief
> tutorial on the syntax of the mount command, although it doesn't explain what
> it didn't like about my command.
>
> Note that there is a space in the file name. Is this confusing the command
> into not knowing where the first argument stops and the second begins? Do I
> need to enclose the filename in quotes or something?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Noble
>
>>>> Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/25/2007 1:18 PM >>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:38 AM, in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Noble
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> When the consultant who helped us install SUSE Linux, SLES9 and SLES10 on our
>> z/VM system left, he apparently didn't set up the installation files for
>> future use properly.
>
> I'll bet he did. See below. (However, he apparently didn't do a fantastic
> job on knowledge transfer, which is too bad.)
>
> -snip-
>> Upon further examination, the SLES10 directories are essentially empty.
>> However, there is a 4.5GB file named SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso. I'm
>> guessing
>> (and hoping) that this is an iso image of the installation DVD.
>
> You are correct.
>
>> Is there an easy way to "extract" the files from this iso file and create
>> the source files needed by the software management function on my SLES10
>> target machine?
>
> No need to extract the files. You can do what's called a "loopback mount" of
> the image:
> mount -o loop SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso /path/to/ftp/sles10/directory/
>
> Now, the downfall of this is that by their nature, .iso images are read-only,
> so you can't update the installation tree with subsequent package updates.
> (You can get around this with doing a number of bind mounts (another advanced
> topic), but it's not very elegant, for lack of a better word.) So, if you
> don't mind running YaST Online Update on every newly installed system, that's
> not a problem. If it is, then you might want to extract the files to disk. I
> would recommend that you do this with the Service Pack 1 .iso image though,
> not the GA one you have.
>
>
> Mark Post
>
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