trouble mounting cdrom

[henderson at esvax.hamavnet.com]

In article <11956 at ncar.ucar.edu>, clyne at redcloud.scd.ucar.edu (John Clyne) writes:
> I just installed ultrix 4.2 from cdrom. Thank you digital for not providing
> an upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2. Doing a complete install really made my day (or
> night i should say). After the installation i wanted to load all of our 
> unbundled software. Alas i was unable to mount our lovely new RRD40. If
> I execute
> 
> 	% mount /dev/rz4c/mnt
> 
> i get
> 
> 	ufs_mount: /dev/rz4c on /mnt: Restricted operation on file system
> 
> If i execute
> 
> 	% mount -t cdfs /dev/rz4c /mnt
> 
> I get
> 
> 	cdfs_mount: Unknown descriptor type
(are you running 4.2? I understand the above -t cdfs qualifier only works with
4.2).

> 
> Yes i do have
> 
>         options CDFS
>         pseudo-device    cdfs
> 
> configured in the kernel.
> 
> 
> Any ideas? 

Yes, try

mount -r /dev/rz4c /mnt

Notice the -r indicating that it is a read only volume.


> 
> thanks much - jc

You're welcome!

> 
> John Clyne 	(clyne at ncar.ucar.edu)
> National Center for Atmospheric Research
> P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307
> (303) 497-1236
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