Solaris: Mounting a CD-ROM manually

1. Get the device name in cxtydzsn format, associated with the CD drive
   
   • % iostat -En

     c1t0d0           Soft Errors: 149 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 
     Vendor: MATSHITA Product: CDRW/DVD UJDA740 Revision: 1.00 Serial No:  
     Size: 0.56GB <555350016 bytes>
     Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 
     Illegal Request: 149 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

     • -E displays all device error statistics & -n shows the names in descriptive format. We are interested in only the logical device name though.
       
     • slice 0 is the default
   
   
2. Mount the device associated with CD-ROM
   
   • % mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /cdrom
     
     • ensure the existence of the mount point /cdrom, before running the mount command
       
     • -F specifies the type of the file system on which to operate. High Sierra File System (HSFS) is the file system for CD-ROM
       -o specifies the file system options. ro stands for read-only. Default is rw (read-write).
   
   
3. Check the file system
   
   • % df

     /                  (/dev/dsk/c0d0s0   ):11467100 blocks   959851 files
     /devices           (/devices          ):       0 blocks        0 files
     /system/contract   (ctfs              ):       0 blocks 2147483616 files
     /proc              (proc              ):       0 blocks     7782 files
     /etc/mnttab        (mnttab            ):       0 blocks        0 files
     /etc/svc/volatile  (swap              ): 1083672 blocks   120236 files
     /system/object     (objfs             ):       0 blocks 2147483503 files
     /dev/fd            (fd                ):       0 blocks        0 files
     /tmp               (swap              ): 1083672 blocks   120236 files
     /var/run           (swap              ): 1083672 blocks   120236 files
     /export/home       (/dev/dsk/c0d0s7   ): 7351834 blocks  2086532 files
     /cdrom             (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 ):       0 blocks        0 files

   • % ls /cdrom
     cdi/ ext/ mpegav/ segment/ vcd/