topic Re: MAke a list of CD rom diskContens in Operating System - HP-UX

MAke a list of CD rom diskContens

oscar munoz_1 — Thu, 06 May 2004 15:43:05 GMT

How can I mount a cdrom disk and read the contents?

Re: MAke a list of CD rom diskContens

Bryan D. Quinn — Thu, 06 May 2004 15:50:41 GMT

Hello,

If you know your cdroms device file just do the following:

mount /dev/dsk/cXtXdX /some_directory

If you don't know the device file for your cdrom do an ioscan to determine:

ioscan -fnC disk

Just look for your cdrom device and note it's device file then mount it as above.

Hope this helps!
-Bryan

Re: MAke a list of CD rom diskContens

Bryan D. Quinn — Thu, 06 May 2004 15:51:49 GMT

Sorry, got ahead of myself.

After you have sucessfully mounted the cdrom, just cd into the directory and do an ll to list the files:

cd /some_directory

ll

-Bryan

Re: MAke a list of CD rom diskContens

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 06 May 2004 15:52:38 GMT

Assuming this is an HP-UX machine:

If /cdrom directory doesn't exist, create it.

# mkdir /cdrom

Determine the device file of your CDROM drive via ioscan:

# ioscan -kfnC disk

look for a CD or DVD in the description and make note of the /dev/dsk/c?t?d0 device file below the description line.

# mount -F cdfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c?t?d0 /cdrom

# cd /cdrom
# ls

To unmount the cdrom so you can eject it:

# cd /
# umount /cdrom