SUMMARY: pkgadd from Sol 8 cdrom without pgkmap files

THANKS TO ALL WHO REPLIED:

Mike's List <mikelist@sky.net>
Fabrice Guerini <fabrice@bluemartini.com>
Richard Eisenman <eisenman@ilt.com>
K Takahashi <K.Takahashi@inter.nl.net>
Dan Astoorian <djast@cs.toronto.edu>
Serguei Borkov <sborkov@yahoo.com>
Shaukat Riaz <riaz_shaukat@hotmail.com>
Tim Evans <tkevans@tkevans.com>
Jeff Woolsey <woolsey@jlw.com>
Micheal Hocke <mh103@nyu.edu>
Mangesh <mangesh.v@xaalliance.com>
Mauro Palmiero <palmiero.m@tin.it>

ORIGINAL QUESTION:

>I have an Ultra 5 with Solaris 8 2/02 (upgraded from Sol 7 
>Core only) and I need to add the SUNWipc and SUNWipcx packages.
>
>These packages are on the Solaris 8 Software CD in the 
>[/mnt]/tmp/root/var/sadm/pkg directory.  But when I
>try to add them via 
>    pkgadd -d /mnt/tmp/root/var/sadm/pkg
>pkgadd brings up the list of packages in the directory, 
>but complains bitterly about there not being a pkgadd
>file in the package's directory, and indeed there is no
>pkgmap file in _any_ of the package directories.
>
>I have checked the SunManager archives and google'd 
>to no avail.
>
>How can I add these packages from the Solaris 8 CD's?

SOLUTION:

The cdrom I had check was the Solaris 8 Installation disk.
What I had found was the installed packages that live in
the miniroot that comes on the cdrom, and which exists when
you boot from the cdrom or when the miniroot gets copied
to the swap partition during and upgrade.

The correct answer is that the installable packages live
in slice 0 of the Solaris Software 1 of 2 in the 
Solaris_8/Product directory.  For Solaris 7 it is in slice 0
of the Solaris Software CD in the Solaris_2.7/Product directory.

The Product directories have a lot of packages so using
"pkgadd -d ." directly off the cdrom is _very_ slow.
Much faster is to copy the package directories needed to
/var/spool/pkg and install from harddisk.

The slice in question is of the hsfs filetype so it would 
be mounted as 
   mount -r -f hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 /cdrom
(where /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 is the path to the cdrom).

Bill
Bill





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