unable to muont cdrom with pfs_mount

[Hoang Le_1]

I'm unable to mount a cdrom with pfs_mount.

EX: when I use this command
pfs_mount -t rrip -xunix /dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /CDROM

The system will take a while and return:
pfs_mount: giving up on /CDROM

all the device and mount point has been correctly setup.

[David Child_1]

Are you certain that the CD you are trying to mount is in Rock Ridge Interchange format?

If you are not certain, try leaving out the "-t rrip" option and see if it will mount.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Make sure you follow the steps in either of these documents:

# KBAN00000252 (PFS to mount Oracle, Rockridge and most PC formatted CD-ROM 11.x)

or:

# KBAN00000197 (PFS to mount Oracle, Rockridge and most PC formatted CD-ROM 10.x)

...JRF...

[Hoang Le_1]

Thanks for all of your replies.

I actually want to mount cdrom for installing Oracle.

[Hakan Dedorson]

A problem that may occur with pfs is that it seems to hang the CD-drive, even if you reboot the machine. If you fail to mount at the first attempt you may need to cycle power on the drive before you attempt to mount again.

Also you should use a character device (/dev/rdsk...) when mounting.

[Dragan Krnic_2 · Accepted solution]

It seems that all you wanna do is mount a CD disk and install your new Oracle. This is what I do:

Assuming that your CD drive is "/dev/dsk/c0t0d0" and you want to mount it on "/cdrom" create or edit the file "/etc/pfs_fstab" with at least this entry (start from col 1):
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /cdrom pfs-rrip xlat=unix 0
Then execute

# nohup pfs_mountd > /tmp/out.pfsmountd 2>&1 &
# nohup pfsd > /tmp/out.pfsd 2>&1 &
# pfs_mount /cdrom

Your CD-ROM will be mounted with small and big letters. If you want to export it to another host via NFS, you need also to create or edit the file "/etc/pfs_xtab" with the mount point ("/cdrom") and use "pfs_exportfs" to export it.

[Ajitkumar Rane]

Hoang,

I very much go with the previous reply of Dragan Krnic. It should be given in your Oracle documentation as well.Probably you tried pfs_mount without starting the pfs_mountd and pfsd deamons.Also one thing to remember is while unmounting the CDROM use pfs_umount.

Goodluck

[Hoang Le_1]

Thank all of you. It finally works with
Dragan solution.

Hoang