Sun Microsystems 817-3630-11 manual How to Mount a CD-ROM Drive

▼How to Mount a CD-ROM Drive

If you have disabled Solaris Volume Manager (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 Volume Manager is enabled, open a Terminal window on your Solaris desktop and type:

%ps -df grep vold

The system returns information about the Volume Manager process (vold) if it is enabled.

If your Sun system does not have Solaris Volume Manager enabled, you need to become superuser and mount the CD-ROM drive manually as described in the next steps.

If vold is not enabled, the system returns only the grep process information, and no vold process information, similar to the following:

username 2698 1934 0 10:34:01 pts/s 0:00 grep vold

Because grep vold is the only information about vold that appears, Volume Manager is not enabled. If Volume Manager 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 Volume Manager 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:

#mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 /cdrom

Note – Type -owith no space between the minus sign and the letter o.

Chapter 10 Using Drives and Configuring Peripheral Devices 101