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Can't mount CD or even
Name: arrebola Date: August 1, 2001 at 15:44:47 Pacific
Comment:
Hi everyone,
I'm running Solaris 8 (as bastion host) in a Ultra Station. After removing some packages and adding some (from the CD with mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0) I can't mount the CD anymore. Something like "there's no such device" appears. I've tried to boot cdrom or boot cdrom -s and also boot -r but nothing...
Name: chalie Date: November 5, 2001 at 15:30:18 Pacific
Reply:
you may have to unmount using umount -f command or your vold daemon may not run properly. So, try to run manually in the /etc/init.d/vglmnt start or stop.
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Response Number 2
Name: arrebola Date: January 12, 2002 at 18:48:01 Pacific
Reply:
Well,
Thanks Chalie but that's not the origin of my problem. Actually I had a hardware problem. Now it's solved. Thanks anyway.
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