Mounting CDs or DVDs (Solaris Operating System)

If you are mounting the CD or DVD drive from a remote system using NFS, the CD or DVD file system on the remote computer must be exported with root access.

Depending on your local system configuration, you might also need root access on the local computer.

To mount the CD or DVD on Solaris Operating System:

Insert the CD or DVD into the drive.
If the Volume Manager (vold) is running on your system, the disc is automatically mounted as /cdrom/cd_label if the CD or DVD has a label or /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom if it is unlabeled.
If the Volume Manager is not running on your system, complete the following steps to mount the CD or DVD:
1. Determine the name of the device by entering the following command:
```
   ls -al /dev/sr* |awk '{print "/" $11}'
```
  This command returns the name of the CD or DVD device. In this example, the command returns the string /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2.
2. Enter the following commands to mount the CD or DVD:
```
   mkdir -p /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom 
    mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom
```
  where /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 represents the name of the device that was returned in the preceding step and /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom represents the CD or DVD mount directory.
  Note: If you are mounting the CD or DVD drive from a remote system using NFS, the CD or DVD 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.
Log out.

Your CD or DVD file system is now mounted. View the contents of the CD or DVD by placing the disk in the drive and enter the cd /cdrom command where cdrom is the mount point directory.

Parent topic: An overview of installing your DB2 server product (Linux and UNIX)