[Sunhelp] manual mount of IDE CD-ROM on Solaris 2.6 (x_86)

[Irwin R. Naumann]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Irwin R. Naumann [SMTP:irwin at thinkage.ca]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:08 PM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	[Sunhelp] manual mount of IDE CD-ROM on Solaris 2.6 (x_86)
> 
> I installed the 2.6 Core distribution on a Pentium Pro with two IDE disks
> and
> an IDE CD-ROM.
> 
> The initial install from CD-ROM displayed
>   isa/ata at 170,0/cmdk at 0,0:a.
> 
> I did a "ls -al /dev/dsk/* | grep 170 | grep :a" which returned
> lrwxrwxrwx ... /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 -> ../../devices/isa/ata at 1,170/cmdk at 0,0:a.
> 
> I attempted "mount -rF hsfs /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /cdrom" which returned
> "hsfs mount: /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 is not an hsfs file system".
> 
> How does one do a manual mount of the CD-ROM?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>     Irwin
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I found the solution by looking at the contents of /etc/vold.conf.

   Irwin