Old style licenses in CD images

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Hi:
A client of ours has been building their QNX4 target drives using a master
drive from which the appropriate contents are transferred using a bunch of
scripts. They have recently decided to change to a CD based installation
procedure because the drives in the new platforms they are using are
somewhat difficult to get to. I have been using mkisofs to create the CD
images, but have run into a problem because they are using old-style
licenses. In the master drive scenario, “license” was used to transfer the
licenses to the target drive, but this is clearly not an option using the CD
image.

Are they stuck using a floppy as a source of the licenses, as an adjunct to
the CD, or is there some other way to get around this issue ? Other posts to
this newsgroup imply that the old style licenses cannot be converted to new
style licenses.

Thanks
Lionel

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Lionel J Johnson
Sterling Computer Systems Inc.
19270 North Hills Drive
Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045
USA.
Telephone: +1 (262) 796-0063
Fax: +1 (262) 796-1225
email: ljohnson@sterling1.com

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Hi Lionel,
We’ve been using a “Gold” CD build system for a number of years. If I
remember correctly, running the license utility on the CD copies of the old
licenses does not work. Since our CD build process uses a boot floppy
anyway, putting them there was not a problem.

Best Regards,
Bob

“Lionel Johnson” ljohnson**nospam**@sterling1.com wrote in message
news:akl5h5$4nq$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hi:
A client of ours has been building their QNX4 target drives using a master
drive from which the appropriate contents are transferred using a bunch of
scripts. They have recently decided to change to a CD based installation
procedure because the drives in the new platforms they are using are
somewhat difficult to get to. I have been using mkisofs to create the CD
images, but have run into a problem because they are using old-style
licenses. In the master drive scenario, “license” was used to transfer the
licenses to the target drive, but this is clearly not an option using the
CD
image.

Are they stuck using a floppy as a source of the licenses, as an adjunct
to
the CD, or is there some other way to get around this issue ? Other posts
to
this newsgroup imply that the old style licenses cannot be converted to
new
style licenses.

Thanks
Lionel

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Lionel J Johnson
Sterling Computer Systems Inc.
19270 North Hills Drive
Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045
USA.
Telephone: +1 (262) 796-0063
Fax: +1 (262) 796-1225
email: > ljohnson@sterling1.com

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Hi Bob:
Yep that’s right - the mkisofs utility can’t transfer the “license” property
into the iso image - so the license utility will not work on “playback”.
Turns out that old style licenses newer than 4.23A can be converted to new
style licenses (through QSSL intervention). Unfortunately, our client’s
licenses are of 4.22A vintage so conversion is not possible.
Lionel

“Robert Nadler” <bobn@nci.com> wrote in message
news:akllnh$gse$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hi Lionel,
We’ve been using a “Gold” CD build system for a number of years. If I
remember correctly, running the license utility on the CD copies of the
old
licenses does not work. Since our CD build process uses a boot floppy
anyway, putting them there was not a problem.

Best Regards,
Bob

“Lionel Johnson” ljohnson**nospam**@sterling1.com wrote in message
news:akl5h5$4nq$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Hi:
A client of ours has been building their QNX4 target drives using a
master
drive from which the appropriate contents are transferred using a bunch
of
scripts. They have recently decided to change to a CD based installation
procedure because the drives in the new platforms they are using are
somewhat difficult to get to. I have been using mkisofs to create the CD
images, but have run into a problem because they are using old-style
licenses. In the master drive scenario, “license” was used to transfer
the
licenses to the target drive, but this is clearly not an option using
the
CD
image.

Are they stuck using a floppy as a source of the licenses, as an adjunct
to
the CD, or is there some other way to get around this issue ? Other
posts
to
this newsgroup imply that the old style licenses cannot be converted to
new
style licenses.

Thanks
Lionel

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Lionel J Johnson
Sterling Computer Systems Inc.
19270 North Hills Drive
Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045
USA.
Telephone: +1 (262) 796-0063
Fax: +1 (262) 796-1225
email: > ljohnson@sterling1.com


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The good news is “yes you can do that”.
There are some discussions in the Forums at openqnx.com
Frank

Lionel Johnson ljohnson**nospam**@sterling1.com wrote:

Hi:
A client of ours has been building their QNX4 target drives using a master
drive from which the appropriate contents are transferred using a bunch of
scripts. They have recently decided to change to a CD based installation
procedure because the drives in the new platforms they are using are
somewhat difficult to get to. I have been using mkisofs to create the CD
images, but have run into a problem because they are using old-style
licenses. In the master drive scenario, “license” was used to transfer the
licenses to the target drive, but this is clearly not an option using the CD
image.

Are they stuck using a floppy as a source of the licenses, as an adjunct to
the CD, or is there some other way to get around this issue ? Other posts to
this newsgroup imply that the old style licenses cannot be converted to new
style licenses.

Thanks
Lionel


==================================
Lionel J Johnson
Sterling Computer Systems Inc.
19270 North Hills Drive
Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045
USA.
Telephone: +1 (262) 796-0063
Fax: +1 (262) 796-1225
email: > ljohnson@sterling1.com