Mounting CD-ROM in Solaris Manually

The following is a quick tutorial on how to mount the CD-ROM manually within Solaris. This can be helpful if the CD-ROM was not automatically mounted on boot and you need access to the media.

First we need to determine the logical device of the cdrom device. To do this issue:

iostat -En

You should get the following output:

c0t0d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: LITE-ON  Product: DVD SOHD-16P9S   Revision: F3S2 Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

Next manually mount the device using the following:

mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt

This should mount the CD-ROM to the /mnt directory. Navigate to /mnt for the contents of the CD-ROM.