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Operating Systems Solaris mounting cdrom on Solaris 9 Post 47476 by AJA on Wednesday 11th of February 2004 10:45:45 AM
Old 02-11-2004
You guys rock. It works now, but I'm not sure why. See, I have an Oracle install disc too and when I tried to mount it, using the:

bash-2.05# mount -oro /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 /cdrom2

It mounted the Oracle cd and I could view the contents.


However, if I tried to mount the Star Office cd this way it would not work. I have no idea why, but I'm a UNIX novice.

Here's what I did:

First I stopped the volume manager as instructed, but if this were the problem would I have been able to mount the Oracle cd? To mount the StarOffice cd I used the following and it worked fine:

bash-2.05# mount mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 /cdrom

Why did this work and my other attempts did not and what is the hsfs syntax in this command line? Also, is there a way to permenantly mount the cdrom so that whenever I put a cd in, it will automatically mount the contents to a directory? Thanks for the help guys.--AJ
 

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mount_pcfs(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    mount_pcfs(1M)

NAME
mount_pcfs - mount pcfs file systems SYNOPSIS
mount -F pcfs [generic_options] [-o FSType-specific_options] special | mount_point mount -F pcfs [generic_options] [-o FSType-specific_options] special mount_point DESCRIPTION
mount attaches an MS-DOS file system (pcfs) to the file system hierarchy at the mount_point, which is the pathname of a directory. If mount_point has any contents prior to the mount operation, these are hidden until the file system is unmounted. If mount is invoked with special or mount_point as the only arguments, mount will search /etc/vfstab to fill in the missing arguments, including the FSType-specific_options; see mount(1M) for more details. The special argument can be one of two special device file types: o A floppy disk, such as /dev/diskette0 or /dev/diskette1. o A DOS logical drive on a hard disk expressed as device-name:logical-drive , where device-name specifies the special block device-file for the whole disk and logical-drive is either a drive letter (c through z) or a drive number (1 through 24). Examples are /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:c and /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:1. The special device file type must have a formatted MS-DOS file system with either a 12-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit File Allocation Table. OPTIONS
generic_options See mount(1M) for the list of supported options. -o Specify pcfs file system specific options. The following options are supported: foldcase|nofoldcase Force uppercase characters in filenames to lowercase when reading them from the filesystem. This is for compatibility with the pre- vious behavior of pcfs. The default is nofoldcase. FILES
/etc/mnttab table of mounted file systems /etc/vfstab list of default parameters for each file system ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mount(1M), mountall(1M), mount(2), mnttab(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), pcfs(7FS) NOTES
If the directory on which a file system is to be mounted is a symbolic link, the file system is mounted on the directory to which the sym- bolic link refers, rather than on top of the symbolic link itself. SunOS 5.10 24 Nov 2003 mount_pcfs(1M)
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