Mount the CD-ROM Drive

As root, make a directory (if one does not already exist) to be the mount point for the CD-ROM drive. The following examples for each platform uses the directory /cdrom. Make sure you know the device name of the CD-ROM drive. If you do not know the device name for the CD-ROM drive, consult your system administrator. Mounting commands for different operating systems follow.

Sparc/Solaris with volume management

Solaris 2.x with volume management mounts to the /cdrom directory. This happens automatically when you load the CD-ROM drive. You have volume management if the vold daemon is running on your system.

Sparc/Solaris (Solaris 2.x) without volume management

# mkdir /cdrom
# mount -r -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom

HP (HP-UX 10.x, 11.x)

# mkdir /cdrom
# mount -r -F cdfs /dev/dsk/c0t2d0 /cdrom

IBM (AIX 4.3.x)

# mkdir /cdrom
# mount -r -v cdrfs /dev/cd0 /cdrom

SGI (IRIX 6.x)

IRIX 6.x with volume management mounts /CDROM automatically after loading the CD into the CD-ROM drive. You have volume management if the mediad daemon is running on your system.

SGI/IRIX 6.x without volume management

# mkdir /cdrom
# mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/scsi/sc0d610 /cdrom

(requires eoe2.sw.cdrom package)

Tru64 Unix

# mkdir /cdrom
# mount -r -t cdfs -o rrip /dev/rz4c /cdrom 

Linux x86

# mount /mnt/cdrom 

or

# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom