virtual cdrom

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:50 PM, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to mount the virtual cdrom from a remote console of a Sun
>>> Fire
>>> server which has RHEL5.
>>>
>>> The /var/log/messages shows :
>>>
>>> Aug  5 05:10:27 wks-175 kernel: usb 4-5: new high speed USB device using
>>> ehci_hcd and address 11
>>> Aug  5 05:10:27 wks-175 kernel: usb 4-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1
>>> choice
>>> Aug  5 05:10:27 wks-175 kernel: scsi12 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
>>> Storage
>>> devices
>>> Aug  5 05:10:32 wks-175 kernel:   Vendor: Virtual   Model: DVD/CD-ROM
>>>  Rev: 100
>>> Aug  5 05:10:32 wks-175 kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM
>>> ANSI SCSI revision: 00
>>> Aug  5 05:10:32 wks-175 kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw
>>> xa/form2
>>> cdda tray
>>> Aug  5 05:10:32 wks-175 kernel: sr 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1
>>> type
>>> 5
>>>
>>> but the sg devices are of type 21 generic scsi and I cannot mount it :
>>>
>>> [root at wks-175 dev]# mount  /dev/sg1 /media
>>> mount: /dev/sg1 is not a block device
>>
>> According to the output /dev/sr0 is your CD drive.
>>
>>
>
> Sorry, I forgot to say that was the first one I tried.
>
> [root at wks-175 ~]# mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
> mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist
> [root at wks-175 ~]#

Actually, what is a virtual CDROM?  Is this just an ISO image?  Is the
fact that its a Sun Fire even relevant?


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