Shalom,
1) Share the CD-rom with either CIFS/9000(Samba) or NFS. With NFS add it to /etc/exports, configure it as read only. exportfs -av
2)Mount with cifsclient or mount -t nfs, depending on which way you went. I'd go with NFS for software depots.
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