mount a remote cdrom
807557Apr 25 2008 — edited Apr 28 2008I have a Sun CT900 with various blades that have no cdrom drives. I am trying to setup a shared cdrom drive on a different server so that if I install applications on my cdrom-less blade servers with ease. I have been copying the contents of DVDs to one server, ftp-ing the tar to by cdrom-less server and installing it from the server itself, but I have run into problems with copying the contents of the DVDs and its a time-intensive process.
I used the following procedures which seem to mount a Solaris 10 DVD with ease:
On the server with the cdrom drive:
# share �F nfs �o ro /cdrom/cdrom0/s0
# svcadm -v enable -r network/nfs/server
Perform the following steps on the server with no cdrom drive.
# mount �F nfs �o ro <ip address>:/cdrom/cdrom0/s0 /cdrom/cdrom0/s0
I know that the procedure only sees the s0 filesystem on the DVD though and you have to mount each s# separately. Unfortunately when I try to mount DVDs that I have burned or CDs I run into a lot of problems. Is it possible to remotely mount DVDs or CDs that do not have the s# architecture?? Thanks.