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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers still cant get the solaris cdrom!! Post 8965 by loadc on Friday 19th of October 2001 03:42:48 PM

10-19-2001

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Hmmm

I've got some questions for you, and I think I understand your frustration...
I remember somewhere a while back reading that Suns will only boot from a 2048 block reading CDROM, and the norm is a 1024 block read, so your run of the mill scsi cdrom won't boot a Sun, if that is part of your aim ( or reverse the block sizes, one way or the other...).
I understand you want to install RedHat on the Sparc, so why bother with the CD? From my experience with RH on Sparc (not much), I needed to make a boot diskette, and since that was an image, I could do that on a PC or by dd-ing off my other boxes. If your Sparc is without a floppy, let me say the a sparc floppy is also a bit different from your average floppy.
Now, if you wan to keep solaris and mount that CD, you need to know a coupla things, your filesystem type, and your device. Most of the mount versions out there will see that the device is read-only and warn you and then allow the mount but ask you to use "mount -o ro /dev/cdrom" in the future. Make sure you are mounting the correct partition of the CD, this is part of the device special. I have had the odd CD that wanted s4 mounted or something equally strange.
I also notice that you are using the Linux drive letter specifications, Solaris is different, your devices are under /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0, as a matter of fact, that is prolly your cd right there, have you explored /dev/dsk for the "cooked" devices on the system? you'll want to look....

Okay, now that all of that is out of the way, if you are installing RH, boot from the floppy, and it will find the CD, especially if you don't have a Sun CDROM, and don't think it's Sun just because the case says so, sometimes it ain't so.
If you are keeping Solaris, mount the drive with:
"mount -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom", that should work better.

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MCDP(1) 							   User commands							   MCDP(1)

NAME

       mcdp - a small cdplayer for linux

SYNOPSIS

       mcdp [/dev/some-cdrom-device]

DESCRIPTION

       The command mcdp is used for playing AudioCD's. It has a curses like userinterface and is fairly simple to use.

OPTIONS

       There is only one optional option - a cd device, e.g. /dev/cdrom2.

KEYS

       KEY	      DESCRIPTION

       #	      play track number # (0,1..9)
       cursor up      fast forward
       cursor right   slow forward
       cursor left    slow rewind
       cursor down    fast rewind
       space	      next track
       b/B	      previous track
       S/s	      toggle start/stop
       P/p	      toggle pause/resume
       E/e	      eject cdrom device
       C/c	      close cdrom device
       R/r	      redraw screen
       M/m	      change playmethod (-/+)
       +/-	      change trackmodifier (+/-)
       </>	      change audio volume of cdrom device (-/+)
       Q/q	      quit mcdp

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       CDDA_DEVICE   Reserved or later :)
       CDROM	     Try this cdrom as default (if unset, CDROM_DEFAULT
		     from params.h is used).
       CDDB_PATH     path to your local cddb files (if unset, _no_ cddb titelinfo
		     is displayed)
       CDDB_SERVER   IP:PORT of a freedb server (if unset, only local cddb
		     stuff is used, if it exists in $CDDB_PATH/$discid).
       LOGNAME	     Is used for remote cddb login.
       HOSTNAME      Is used for remote cddb login too.

FILES

       $HOME/.workmandb   Is used (first) for reading wmdb entries.
       $CDDB_PATH/*	  Is used for reeading/writing cddb entries.

RETURN VALUES

       0    no errors occured / normal quit
       1    the given cd-device isn't a cd-device
       2    your cd seems to be sth. other then a CD-Audio or CD-Mixed
       3    some error while processing terminal code

NOTES

       Some  terminals	don't like the default escape-sequences from params.h ... if so, you have to edit them ! Successfully tested terminals are
       vt100, linux, xterm, xterm-color.

       If you haven't direct access to a freedb server, you may use some port redirector program ... see freshmeat.

       If you have devfs, mcdp will try /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, else /dev/cdrom is tried!

AUTHOR

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       Homepage: http://www.mcmilk.de/projects/mcdp/

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