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I have an external cdrom drive, which am tring to
mount.

I issued the following

mkdir cdrom to create a mount point

then

mount -F cdfs /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s7 /cdrom

but this is unsuccessful instead received an error
message mount point not found




can you help

What was your pwd when you issued the mkdir cdrom ?

my pwd is /




to make matter worst I can not eject cdrom
I have tried the eject command and volcheck -v but no joy instead volcheck report no media was found

can you help pleased

I have also tried

mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s6 /cdrom

this is also unsuccesful received an error message mount: I/O error canot mount /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s6

Can you help please

Thanks in Advance

Hard to say what the problem is. About the only thing you can do is double check all your information.

Default for cdrom normally c0t6 - check that you have actually set the cdrom to target 4 - the controller could be different (cXt4).

Check that the /dev/dsk is there.

Insure you did a boot -r after installing the cdrom.

See if the cdrom shows up at the ok prompt (probe-scsi-all).

See if you can boot cdrom -s.

Look for any errors in dmesg or /var/adm/messages.

It seems that you should not have had to create the cdrom directory - it is normally there with a normal Solaris install. Possibly it has the wrong permissions:
% ls -ld /cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 3 root nobody 512 Jul 2 2001 /cdrom

mount in linux is file://mount/cdrom
mount in bsd is /mount/cdrom
mount is os X is well it auto detecks it