How to mount the CD-ROM on Solaris 10 without knowing the CD-ROM device name?
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You do want to mount a CD read-only with:
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/sr0 /cdrom I have never used any solaris machines with multiple CDs myself, but I assume you can use /dev/sr1 etc. for the other drives.
- This is easier than providing the specific CD-ROM device name.Adam Siemion– Adam Siemion2013-06-11 13:24:52 +00:00Commented Jun 11, 2013 at 13:24
- Except for it doesn't work if you do a minimal Solaris 9 install.saulius2– saulius22017-08-22 14:22:28 +00:00Commented Aug 22, 2017 at 14:22
Find the CD-ROM device name using the
iostatcommand.# iostat -En c0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Model: VBOX HARDDISK Revision: Serial No: VB8abc1378-4a46 Size: 17.18GB <17179803648 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 0 c1t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: VBOX Product: CD-ROM Revision: 1.0 Serial No: Size: 2.25GB <2254110720 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 8 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0The CD-ROM device name is
c1t0d0.Mount the CD-ROM
# mount -r -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /cdrom
If the cdrom is not automatically mounted then you don't have the volfs service up
svcs -a|grep volfs online Jun_05 svc:/system/filesystem/volfs:default Doing
svcadm enable volfs Will renable the daemon and mount automatically the cdroms under /cdrom/cdrom# where # will be a number.
Otherwise you can do as Adam Siemion mentioned in is answer, use iostat and then mount the cd manually.
