How To Create A Software Distribution Directory For Some Products On The CD

To create a software distribution directory which contains some of the some of the products on the CD:

  1. Place the CD containing software products in the CDROM drive.
  2. Open up a directory view for the directory /usr. If the directory dist does not exist in /usr, create it.
  3. Open the directory dist and create a directory named desktop_special_ed_1.1.
  4. Open a shell by selecting Unix Shell in the Desktop ToolChest menu.
  5. To get a list of the products on the CD, execute the command ls /CDROM/dist/*.idb. The output will contain the list of names in the form prod.idb, where prod is the short name of the product. In this example, this command will list items such as InPerson.idb and outbox.idb for the products InPerson and outbox. Products that begin with the name patch are patches for the products on the CD. Please refer to the release notes to determine whether the patches need to be installed.

  6. Execute the command distcp -n /CDROM/dist /usr/dist/desktop_special_ed_1.0 prod1* prod2* prod3* ... where prod1 prod2 prod3 are the short names of the products that you want in the software distribution directory. Note that the names of the products are followed by an * character. In this example, we only want the products InPerson and outbox for this software distribution directory.

The directory /usr/dist/desktop_special_ed_1.1 is now a Software Distribution Directory that contains the InPerson and outbox products.