Hello everybody,

I'm newbie at Solaris and need some help about mounting cdrom.

I have a solaris 10 VM running on VMware. While setup, I forgot to add
man pages to my installation. After reboot I attached Solaris ISO file
as Cdrom to my Solaris VM. But somehow, it doesnt detect and mount my
cdrom. I cant see vold either in running process.

After multiple tries, I gave up and installed a new VM with full
packages. Now everything works good.

But I dont understand this ;

mount commands output ;

/ on /dev/dsk/c0d0s0

/cdrom on /vol/dev/dsk/c1t0d0/sol_10_606_x86

Why Solaris is mounting cd and hard disk with different types ?
Why my hard disk has detected as  /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 and cdrom as /vol/
dev/dsk/c1t0d0/ ?
What is the difference between mounting at /dev/dsk and /vol/dev/dsk ?
Why harddisk has detected as c0d0s0 and cdrom c1t0d0 ? If the device
has been assumed as external is it changing something ? The " t " ? :)

I will be very happy if one of you all can explain that or redirect me
to a document which is explaining all those tricks.

Best regards.

Mbuyukkarakas@gmail.com wrote:
> Why Solaris is mounting cd and hard disk with different types ?
> Why my hard disk has detected as  /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 and cdrom as /vol/
> dev/dsk/c1t0d0/ ?

What kind of hard drive did you specify?  If you're using scsi hard
drives then it will appear on a different controller from an IDE CD
drive.

> What is the difference between mounting at /dev/dsk and /vol/dev/dsk ?

/vol is managed by the volume manager.  It is normally used for mounting
removable media.

You could presumably mount the CD directly through it's physical device,
but you'd probably want to shut down the volume manger before doing so.

> Why harddisk has detected as c0d0s0 and cdrom c1t0d0 ? If the device
> has been assumed as external is it changing something ? The " t " ? :)

Different controllers.

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Darren, thanks for your quick response.