2    Creating a Product Kit

This chapter describes how to create a product kit from the New Hardware Delivery data that is downloaded from the World Wide Web. If you have a New Hardware Delivery CD-ROM, you do not need to create a product kit. You can proceed to Chapter 3, and begin installing the New Hardware Delivery software.

In order to use the New Hardware Distribution data that is downloaded from the World Wide Web, you must create a product kit of the data either on a CD-ROM or on a local spare disk on the target system.

You must be running Tru64 UNIX Version 4.0E or later to create this kit.

The following sections describe how to create a product kit on a CD-ROM and on a local disk, such as an RZ26.

2.1    Common Steps for Creating a Product Kit

Use the following steps to create either a CD-ROM or local disk product kit:

  1. Create a target directory for the product kit:

    
    # /usr/bin/mkdir /var/tmp/nhd
    # /usr/bin/chown root.system /var/tmp/nhd
    

  2. Move the product kit files into the target directory:

    # /usr/bin/gzip -dc <kitname> | /usr/bin/tar \
    -C /var/tmp/nhd -xpf -
    

  3. Create an ISO 9660 file system:

    # /usr/sbin/mkisofs -R -D -a -o \
    /var/tmp/nhd.iso /var/tmp/nhd
    

  4. Create a disk label:

    # /usr/sbin/disklabel -w  -t cdfs -f /var/tmp/nhd.iso 
    

  5. Append pad data to the ISO file system:

    # /usr/bin/echo "\0\c" | \
    /usr/bin/dd bs=1024k conv=sync >> /var/tmp/nhd.iso
    

2.2    Steps for Creating a CD-ROM Kit

After you have created the nhd.iso file, you can copy it to a CD-ROM recording system and create the CD-ROM kit.

2.3    Steps for Creating a Local Disk Kit

To create a local disk kit, you must copy the nhd.iso file to a spare disk using the following commands. Note that /dev/rrz99c is used as an example of a spare RZ26 disk.

# /usr/sbin/disklabel -z /dev/rrz99c

# /usr/bin/dd if=/var/tmp/nhd.iso bs=64k of=/dev/rrz99c