Mounting A Cd-dvd With Solaris

Mounting a CD/DVD with Solaris http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Mounting_a_CD _DVD_with_Solaris.html If the Solaris volume management process (vold) is running, the operating system should automatically mount CD/DVD media. If vold does not appear to be working, or if you would like to mount the CD/DVD media manually, perform the following steps: 1. Identify the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM device. $ iostat -En c0t0d0 Soft Errors: 9 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: TOSHIBA Product: DVD-ROM SD-C2612 Revision: 1011 Serial No: Size: 2.14GB <2144518144 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 2. Ensure that vold is not running. # pgrep vold && pkill vold If you attempt to mount the CD/DVD manually with vold running, you may receive the following error: mount: /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 is already mounted, /cdrom is busy, or allowable number of mount points exceeded 3. Create the mount point. In this example, the mount point will be /cdrom. # [ ! -d /cdrom ] && mkdir /cdrom 4. Mount the CD/DVD. # mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 /cdrom If you do not specify the appropriate file system type, you may receive the following error: mount: /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 is not this fstype. If you do not mount the media read-only, you may receive the following message: mount: /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 write-protected Back to brandonhutchinson.com.