Some operating systems such as AIX or Linux require you to mount the drive before you can access data on the compact disc.
To mount the CD-ROM on AIX using the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT), perform the following steps:
Your CD-ROM file system is now mounted. To view the contents of the CD-ROM, place the disk in the drive and enter the cd /cdrom command where cdrom is the CD-ROM mount point directory.
/dev/dsk/c0t2d0 mount_point pfs-rrip ro,hard
where mount_point represents the mount point
of the CD-ROM. /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd & /usr/sbin/pfsd 4 &
mkdir /cdrom /usr/sbin/pfs_mount /cdrom
The /cdrom variable represents the mount point of the CD-ROM.
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom
The /cdrom variable represents the mount point of the CD-ROM.
mkdir -p /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 /cdrom/unnamed_cdromThe /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom variable represents the CD-ROM mount directory and the /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 represents the CD-ROM drive device.
If you are mounting the CD-ROM drive from a remote system using NFS, the CD-ROM file system on the remote machine must be exported with root access. You must also mount that file system with root access on the local machine.
/cdrom/unnamed_cdrom