Harmen wrote: >Hello everybody, > >In my 8 hours with 'the most advanced os in the world', Solaris Express b41, I >haven't found a way to mount any rewritable media. > By default, Solaris will mount the removable device automatically.
>When I insert a disc, all it wants to do is format the disc. When I disable >the volmanager to bypass this strange behavior and want to mount manually, it >says that the device I try to mount is not a block device. > /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 is the character device name. Its corresponding block device name is /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2. Please note there is no 'r' in the block device name. Try it again with the block device name. >However, the device I use is the device found by 'rmformat' ? The man page for >mount explains options which are not available in the actual command and vice >versa. > If your disc is formated in Windoz, please try the following to mount: 1. List the removable device #format -e .... => Pick up the new disk like /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 2. Manual mount #mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2:c /mnt Please find more instructions at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/6mkisopv3?a=view Good luck! Thanks, Joey >This behavior is not what I expected from 'the most advanced OS on the >planet'. I mean, even DOS understands CDRW/DVDRW, come on! > > >This message posted from opensolaris.org >_______________________________________________ >desktop-discuss mailing list >desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
