You can access a CD on another system by mounting it manually into your file system--provided the other system has shared its CD-ROM according to the instructions in "How to Make Local CDs Available to Other Systems".
Select an existing directory to serve as the mount point or create one.
$ mkdir directory |
directory |
The name of the directory that you create to serve as a mount point for the other system's CD. |
Find the name of the CD you want to mount.
$ showmount -e system-name export list for system-name: /cdrom/sol_8_sparc (everyone) |
# mount -F nfs -o ro system-name:/cdrom/cd-name local-mount-point |
system-name |
The name of the system whose CD you will mount. |
cd-name |
The name of the CD you want to mount. |
local-mount-point |
The local directory onto which you will mount the remote CD. |
Log out as superuser.
Verify that the CD is mounted by using the ls command to list the contents of the mount point.
$ ls /cdrom |
This example mounts the CD named sol_8_sparc from the remote system mars onto the /cdrom directory of the local system.
$ showmount -e starbug export list for starbug: /cdrom/sol_8_sparc (everyone) $ su Password: password # mount -F nfs -o ro starbug:/cdrom/sol_8_sparc /cdrom # exit $ ls /cdrom cdrom0 sol_8_sparc |