HP UX and CD ROM drive

[Stephanie Gonos]

HP UX and CD ROM drive
Question I am trying to do some configuration for an SA who is out. I am not an SA, but a DBA who is trying to be helpful. We have HP UX 11.31 on our servers. a df -k doesn't show the CDROM drive nor does the command /cdrom work.
I just get things like /usr, /var, /opt as a result.

I wanted to put in a CD ROM to start copying some applications onto the system.

Where can I find out how to discover the CDROM drive?

[Steven Schweda · Accepted solution]

> [...] nor does the command /cdrom work.

That's not a command.

You need to mount the CD-ROM, which may be
easy or less so, depending on what's in your
"/etc/fstab" file.

A Forum search (in the HP-UX section) for
keywords like, say,
mount cd-rom
should find many examples.


Historical reference:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1394414