Chapter 10 Using Drives and Configuring Peripheral Devices 101
▼How to Mount a CD-ROM Drive
If you have disabled Solaris VolumeManager (vold) on your system, you need to
turn it back on to use vold with SunPCi III software, or you can manually mount
the CD-ROM drive file system instead of using vold.
1. To find out whether VolumeManager is enabled, open a Terminal window on
your Solaris desktop and type:
The system returns information about the VolumeManager process (vold)ifitis
enabled.
If your Sun system does not have Solaris VolumeManager enabled, you need to
become superuser and mount the CD-ROM drive manually as described in the next
steps.
Ifvold is not enabled, the system returns only the grep process information, and no
vold process information, similar to the following:
Because grep vold is the only information about vold that appears, Volume
Manager is not enabled. If VolumeManager were enabled, an additional line and
different process ID (shown by 2698 in the above grep example) would be
displayed.
If your Sun system has Solaris VolumeManager enabled, skip the rest of this
procedure.
2. If Solaris Volume Manager is not enabled, become superuser on your system:
3. Type one of the following commands:
■If your CD-ROM drive is a SCSI drive, type the following command in a Terminal
window on your Sun system to mount the CD-ROM drive:
Note – Type-o with no space between the minus sign and the letter o.
%ps -df | grep vold
username 2698 1934 0 10:34:01 pts/s 0:00 grep vold
# mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 /cdrom