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I am having a rough time with unmounting a CD on a Solaris box. I am installing Oracle 8.1.7 for someone, and everything was going swell until the system tells me to put in CD 2. When I try to eject CD 1, nothing happens because the CD is still mounted. I looked on the man pages for rmmount to see if there was anything on there that would allow me to unmount the CD, but that was a waste of time. I even searched here on the forum, but the forum gave me nada. Can someone tell me how or point me in right direction of unmounting that CD so I can finish the Oracle installation?

Please don't take this the wrong way, but if you are in your mounted directory, you won't be able to umount it. Can't pull the rug out from under your own feet.

Post your error message so we can better help you.

I don't know what your level of expertise is with UNIX, but the command is "umount" not "rmmount". I believe that rmmount is a config file under /etc ... Although, I haven't used Solaris in a few years.

Here is a link that may help. I searched google for "solaris umount". Look at the commands fuser and lsof for files that may still be accessed from the disk.

http://www.netsys.com/sunmgr/1999-04/msg00149.html

Hope this helps you.

The command is:
eject

Is that what you meant when you said you tried to eject the cd? If the eject command is failing run:
eject -d
to see if knows about the device. Did you mount this manually? On a sun you should just insert a cd and it should mount itself. Did that happen? If vold running? (ps -ef | grep vold)

See the man page on eject for more ideas. But sometimes you need to kill and restart vold:
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
But that should be a last resort.

When I tried to umount /cdrom/oracle8i, the error I received was "/cdrom/oracle8i is busy". When I keyed in eject, the message came back and said "/usr/sbin/rmmount(this is where I got rmmount from): umount of /cdrom/oracle8i failed returning 1 /vol/dev/rdsk/c1t6d0/oracle8i Device busy.

The CD did mount automatically, and eject -d did give me a default device(the CD drive). ps -ef | grep vold did show that Volume Management was working. I went ahead and stopped it and restarted it, which let me get the CD out. However, now CD 2 will not mount. I do not have much experience with Solaris, but I do believe that I am going to have to start over on my install now, or perhaps I could get some practice doing some Olympic Solaris Box Roof Tossing to relieve my frustration .

Oh well, thanks anyway, guys!!