[SunHELP] Mounting CDs w/o volmgt

[Rob Staab]

Mounting a CD-ROM is pretty easy.

mount -F hsfs -o ro </device/driver/for/cdrom> <mount point>

hsfs is high siera file system which is the cdrom filesystem -o ro mounts
read-only since it's a cd-rom.

- Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Ben Ricker
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:33 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] Mounting CDs w/o volmgt
>
>
> I am trying to find the right way to mount a cdrom wihtout using volmgt
> (I installed the core Solaris 8 system). I cannot find a cdrom entry in
> /dev and all the instructions on SunDocs are for using volmgt.
>
> Is it me, or does Sun make it extra hard to run their servers without
> CDE or some sort of GUI? I can imagine that I will have trouble
> installing Disksuite also; I only want to use the command line stuff but
> it will probably require CDE or something.
>
> Ben Ricker
> Systems Administrator
> US-Rx, Inc.
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