Try the below and let me know if it works
ftp the S/W in the server #mkdir /cdrom/cdrom0 #lofiadm -a /opt/temp/software // this will give the path /dev/lofi/1 // path given by system #mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /cdrom/cdrom0 Otherwise it could be that the iso file you downloaded is not complete On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM, mwanja ivan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi guys, > > hope you survived last night. > > I downloaded the opensolaris repository and am trying to make it available > for installing packages. > > Its an .iso image and I don't want to burn it on DVD, so I have to make it > available to pkg.depotd server through the commands below; > > $ lofiadm -a <full_path_to>/osol-repo-0906-full.iso /dev/lofi/1 > $ mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt > $ lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1 > > > This is the error I get when I run the first command "the size of repo is > not a multiple of 512". > > what could be the problem here?? > > Ivan > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > >
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