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NAME

instl_combine - combine a LIF ﬁle and ﬁle system for use on CD/DVD

SYNOPSIS

/opt/ignite/lbin/instl_combine

[ -F LIF_volume] -C ﬁle_system_image

[

-?]

DESCRIPTION

instl_combine

is used when making an installation CD (or DVD) that contains a boot LIF volume and

a mountable ﬁle system (either ISO9660/CDFS or HFS). In the case of an HFS ﬁle system, it is used to

combine the given LIF_volume and ﬁle_system_image into one ﬁle that may then be written to a disk or

CD device and used for booting as well as mounting. For an ISO9660 ﬁle system with the LIF_volume

already included as a boot partition,

instl_combine

copies the LIF directory header to the beginning

of the ﬁle_system_image. In either case,

instl_combine

modiﬁes the speciﬁed ﬁle_system_image.

The choice of which ﬁle system to use (HFS or ISO9660) depends on what system architecture the image

is for (PA-RISC or Itanium-based) and the size of the image (greater than or less than 2GB). The sec-

tions below describe when each format is allowed and how

instl_combine is used with each format.

Options

instl_combine recognizes the following options:

-F LIF_volume

Speciﬁes where the LIF_volume is located.

-C file_system_image

Speciﬁes where the ﬁle_system_image is located.

-? Displays the help screen.

When to Use an ISO9660 File System

An ISO9660 ﬁle system may be used in all situations (PA-RISC/Itanium-based, >2GB image). However

there are a few drawbacks to using this ﬁle system layout. Drawbacks such as restricted ﬁle-name

lengths, and the use of tools (

mkisofs) not supplied with the all HP-UX Operating Environments (OEs).

(See the DEPENDENCIES section).

When using an ISO9660 format ﬁle system, the LIF_volume should be included as an El-Torito boot sec-

tion. This allows the LIF_volume to be located toward the front of the image, and thus allows the entire

image to be greater than 2GB without causing problems for programs that access the LIF content during

the boot process.

When the LIF_volume is included as an El-Torito boot section,

instl_combine is used with just the

-C ﬁle_system_image option. In this case,

instl_combine only copies/adjusts the LIF directory

header to the beginning of the image where it may be found by the

lif commands and boot programs.

The LIF_volume is not required to be included as an El-Torito boot section if the ﬁle_system_image plus

the LIF_volume is less than 2GB. In this case, the LIF_volume may be wrapped around the

ﬁle_system_image by specifying both

-C and -F options.

When to Use an HFS File System

An HFS ﬁle system may only be used to create media for use on PA-RISC systems, and may only be used

when the media image size is less than 2GB.

When using an HFS ﬁle system, instl_combine modiﬁes the ﬁle_system_image (speciﬁed with

-C)by

wrapping the LIF_volume (speciﬁed with

-F) around the ﬁle_system_image. The data portion of the

LIF_volume is appended to the ﬁle_system_image, and the LIF directory header is inserted at the begin-

ning.

If an HFS ﬁle system is used, the recommended approach to make the ﬁle system image is to create a

LVM logical volume large enough to hold the contents to be copied to the CD/disk. Then mount the logical

volume, copy the desired ﬁles to the mounted volume, unmount the volume, and use the

dd command to

extract the ﬁle system image from the logical volume device to a regular ﬁle.

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

environment variables. Help text and some command output not parsed by Ignite-UX will be left in the

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Summary of content (4 pages)

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instl_combine(1M) instl_combine(1M) NAME instl_combine - combine a LIF file and file system for use on CD/DVD SYNOPSIS /opt/ignite/lbin/instl_combine [ -F LIF_volume ] -C file_system_image [-?] DESCRIPTION instl_combine is used when making an installation CD (or DVD) that contains a boot LIF volume and a mountable file system (either ISO9660/CDFS or HFS).
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instl_combine(1M) instl_combine(1M) 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" -r B.11.23 -l /var/tmp/ilif Example 2 Create an HFS file system image for PA-RISC that contains the archive entitled myarchive.
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instl_combine(1M) instl_combine(1M) Example 5 Create a bootable CD/DVD for Itanium-based architecture systems. Note that Itanium-based systems require an ISO9660 El-Torito format CD/DVD. 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.
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(Notes) A (Notes) iA 4 Hewlett-Packard Company −1− HP-UX 11i Version 3: March 2012