Ignite-UX Reference (March 2010, B3921-90005)

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International Code Set Support

Ignite-UX uses a variety of system commands to accomplish its functionality. Because the output of many

of these commands is parsed, Ignite-UX ensures that the POSIX locale is normally used by modifying envi-

ronment variables. Help text and some command output not parsed by Ignite-UX will be left in the user’s

speciﬁed locale.

EXAMPLES

Example 1

Create a bootable PA-RISC Ignite-UX LIF image specifying the conﬁguration that has been created on the

server especially for use with the CD. See make_medialif (1M) and instl_adm(4) for details on modifying

the conﬁguration ﬁles for use with CD/disk media.

make_medialif -c "B.11.23 CD cfg"-rB.11.23 -l /var/tmp/ilif

Example 2

Create an HFS ﬁle system image for PA-RISC that contains the archive entitled myarchive.gz, then use

instl_combine to combine the LIF ﬁle created above with the ﬁle system image. Note that a 2KB (or

a multiple of 2KB) fragment size is required for a CD device.

lvcreate -L 550 -n myvol vg00

newfs -F hfs -f 2048 /dev/vg00/rmyvol

mkdir /mnt

mount /dev/vg00/myvol /mnt

cp myarchive.gz /mnt/myarchive.gz

umount /mnt

dd if=/dev/vg00/rmyvol of=/var/tmp/fs_image bs=1024k

/opt/ignite/lbin/instl_combine -F /var/tmp/ilif -C /var/tmp/fs_image

Example 3

Create an ISO9660 format CD/DVD image (that may be greater than 2GB in size) using the open source

mkisofs utility: (the /var/tmp/ilif ﬁle is the result of running make_medialif as shown above).

Step 1: Create a pseudo-root directory containing the ﬁles to be copied to the CD/DVD ﬁle

system. For example:

mkdir /var/tmp/cdroot

cp goldenimage.tar.gz /var/tmp/cdroot

Step 2: Copy the LIF_volume created by make_medialif into the pseudo root:

cp /var/tmp/ilif /var/tmp/cdroot/ilif

Step 3: Run mkisofs to create the ﬁle system image and save it in the ﬁle: /var/tmp/cdfs.iso.

Note that even with the -U, -max-iso9660-filenames, and -D options, there are

limitations to the lengths of ﬁle names, etc. See mkisofs(8) for details.

mkisofs -U -max-iso9660-filenames -D \

-o /var/tmp/cdfs.iso \

-b ilif -no-emul-boot /var/tmp/cdroot

Step 4: Run instl_combine to relocate the LIF header to the beginning of the ISO9660

image:

instl_combine -C /var/tmp/cdfs.iso

Step 5: Write the /var/tmp/cdfs.iso image as a raw ﬁle using open source software such as

cdrecord or software that is supplied with CD/DVD writers. If a PC is used to

write the image to media, be aware that not all software that comes with CD/DVD writ-

ers support writing a raw image. If this is the case, obtain a different application. The

"Adaptec" (tm) "Easy CD Creator" (tm) application is one application that has this fea-

ture (use the "File->Create CD from CD Image" menu).

Note: The DVD created in this example will only work on PA-RISC systems as it has not been