[SunHELP] Unable to mount a Solaris CD ROM

[Warren Brennan]

Your main problem is that you are mounting it as nfs, which is incorrect.
The proper filesystem type is hsfs, so the command would be:

	# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c?t?d?s2

	(c? = controller, t? = target number (scsi id), d? = disk number)

If the cdrom is internal, the controller number will be 0. On most Ultra 5s
I have worked on, it has always been target (scsi id) 2 and disk 0 (but it
could be different on your system).

Cheers,

Warren

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Phil Hughes [SMTP:Phillip.Hughes at headstrong.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:38 AM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	[SunHELP] Unable to mount a Solaris CD ROM
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install Oracle Enterprise 8.0.5 on my Sun Ultra-5 server -
> running Solaris 2.6
> 
> Each time I use the File Manager to access the CDROM in the drive, I see
> files listed from an earlier CD ROM. How do I refresh the CDROM. I have
> tried mounting the CD ROM using:
> 
> # mount -F nfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c1d0s2  /cdrom
> 
> and I receive the following message:
> 
>  nfs  mount: nfs file system; use host:path
> 
> which I do not understand. Can you recommend somewhere where I can learn
> how
> to mount / unmount CD's or any info on installing applications on Solaris
> servers.   I ran the  #cat /dev/vfstab to identify the CDROM dsk info.
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil
> 
> 
> Phil Hughes
> Headstrong
> Technology Operations Manager, Europe
> <mailto:phillip.hughes at headstrong.com>
> Tel: 01932 573620, Mob: 07801 219841
> 
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