[rescue] Another Solaris question

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:30:25PM -0500, Andrew Sydelko wrote:
> On Saturday 23 February 2002 21:10, you wrote:
> > I'm reading some of the Solaris8 Manuals on docs.sun.com.
> >
> > The System Administration Guide, Volume 1 says under How to Load a CD:
> > Insert the CD. Shortly after the light stops flashing (about five to ten
> > seconds), the CD is mounted to /cdrom. To verify that the CD is mounted,
> > perform the task  How to Examine the Contents of a CD .
> >
> >
> > Well, there is no /cdrom.  Also, maybe this is my linux view showing, but
> > there is no entry in /etc/vfstab.  How do I mount my CDs under Solaris 8?
> 
> Solaris uses a special Volume Management system. There should be a daemon
> running called vold that checks for things like CD insertion. Once detected, 
> it should mount the CD under /cdrom/<cd name>. /cdrom/cdrom0 is always a 
> symlink to the CD currently mounted. 
> 
> For floppies, a program called volcheck must be run to tell vold to check for 
> the insertion of a floppy.
> 
> The initscript for starting vold is /etc/init.d/volmgt.

I did another boot -r and it worked.  I think it was fouled up because I had disconected the CD-ROM when I did the last boot -r.


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Joshua D. Boyd