How to Mount a Writeable File System on the SEAS CD

If you want to leave the SEAS CD on a server while SEAM installations are occurring, then you need to mount a writeable file system onto of the CD to provide an area for the preconfiguration information to be stored. This procedure requires that you have the SEAS 3.0 CD available on the server.

1. Become root on an NFS server.

2. Create a file system for the preconfiguration files.

   # cd /export # mkdir SEAM_preconfig

3. Mount the file system on the SEAS CD.

   # SEAM=/cdrom/products/Sun_Enterprise_Authentication_Mechanism_1.0/\ > .install/pkgutil/siteconfig_response # mount -F lofs /export/SEAM_preconfig $SEAM

4. Export the file system.

   To make the configuration files available for all installations, /export or /export/SEAM needs to be NFS-mountable by all hosts.

   1. Edit the /etc/dfs/dfstab file.

      Add an entry for /cdrom and for the new directory /export/SEAM_preconfig, if one does not exist.

      share -f nfs -ro /cdrom share -f nfs -ro /export/SEAM_preconfig

   2. Start the NFS services.

      If this is the first share command or set of share commands that you have initiated, the NFS daemons are probably not running. The following commands kill the daemons and restart them.

      # /etc/init.d/nfs.server stop # /etc/init.d/nfs.server start

Where to Go From Here

Now that an area has been prepared to store the configuration file, you can follow the steps in "How to Preconfigure SEAM Installations ".