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How to mount CD?
Name: mounter Date: June 20, 2001 at 03:24:32 Pacific
Comment:
Hi, All. I have Solaris8 (Intel Edition) installed, but can not use X-Win. So, I need to mount CD to install XFree86 from it. How can I do that? I have experience in Linux, but the disks&partitions files in solaris is too strange :-)
Name: Zahid Date: July 1, 2001 at 05:27:54 Pacific
Reply:
Did you load solaris from the CD, if so I can presume that the CD works. The solaris uses and automount function you need to make sure vold deamon is running if not you will find it in /etc/init.d the rc script is volmgt start this. you should find the CD mounted in /cdrom/cdrom0.
Summary: Try after you insert the cd the command mount If there is no /cdrom entry then type as root /etc/init.d/volmgt start Normally now you can change to the cd via cd /cdrom/cdrom0 Try an ls -l ...
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