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mounting VBox Guest Additions cdrom image on OL 6

EdStevensJul 8 2013 — edited Jul 8 2013

[root@vblnxsrv02 /]# uname -a

Linux vblnxsrv02.vbdomain 2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Jun 23 02:39:07 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@vblnxsrv02 /]#

Thought I'd give a whirl with Oracle 12g, so started with creating an OL 6 machine under VirtualBox.  Running into a string of issues where OL 6 isn't behaving like OL 5.  Here's my current issue.

Trying to install the VBox Guest Additions.  On the VBox console window, selected "Devices" and "Install Guest Additions".  That should cause a cd image to be mounted in the virtual cd drive, and a check of the VBox manager Virtual Media Manager shows VBoxGuestAdditions.iso is attached to my OL6 server.

I have created the directory to which I will mount the cd-rom

[

root@vblnxsrv02 /]# pwd

/

[root@vblnxsrv02 /]# ls -l /media/cdrom

total 0

[root@vblnxsrv02 /]#

But when I try to mount it, using the same simple 'mount' command I use with OL 5:

[root@vblnxsrv02 /]# mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

[root@vblnxsrv02 /]#

Poking around with google there were several places that suggested specifying the iso9660 file system.  So ...

[root@vblnxsrv02 /]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,

       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

       dmesg | tail  or so

[root@vblnxsrv02 /]#

Ideas?

This post has been answered by Dude! on Jul 8 2013
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