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116 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview
The updates for any IBM hardware managed by the SDMC (including Power
Systems and the SDMC appliance itself) can be downloaded from the IBM Fix
Central website at the following address:
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/
If you want to run the import operation from the command line, run the smcli
importupd' command. Run smcli importupd --help to view the command’s
details and examples.
Run mount --help to view instructions about using the mount command.
After the DVD is mounted, the path to use when importing the updates is the
mounted directory followed by the path on the DVD containing the update
images.
To mount the CD or DVD on Linux operating systems, insert the CD or DVD in
the drive and enter the following commands, where /mnt/cdrom represents the
location on the file system from which the files will be accessed:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
You can now specify the path entered above as the target directory using the
Import Updates window or by using the smcli importupd command. Note that
you must specify the full path to the install image files on the media, for example,
/mnt/cdrom/path/to/install/files.
When mounting a USB device, the mount location is typically /dev/sda1. You can
verify this location by running the fdisk -l command after plugging in the USB
device. If /dev/sda1 is present, that should be the USB device. When running the
mount command, a path other than /cdrom should be used, such as /mnt/usb.
To mount the USB device, run the following command:
mkdir /mnt/usb
If the USB is formatted for an NTFS file system, run the following command:
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
Note: When using a USB device, run the lsmediadev command to find the
device to mount.
Note: The following discussion assumes that the CD/DVD is always at
/dev/cdrom and the USB is always at /dev/sda1