Solaris 9 Installation Woes

[satchm0h]

Hi,

I have recently done a clean Solaris 9 install using the "Entire+OEM" option (Sun Netra T1 105). Everything completed with out errors and the machine runs fine, but many of the core packages needed for development are missing.

As an example SUNWsprot is not installed, and thus I do not have /usr/ccs/bin/as, make, etc..

I know this package is on the "Software 2of2" CD. When I insert the disk, it does not automount it to /cdrom. I can also not eject the disk, leading me to believe that vold has at least tried to mount the device. However it does not show up in the mount table. I'm able to read the disc from my PC, but the packages do not seem to be in solaris pkg format, so I don't know what to do with the contents.

Also, I can not figure out how to manually mount the cdrom device. What device should I be trying to mount?
Thre are no obvious choices in /dev. The drive and disk are working fine, as I was able to install the OS without any issue.

Obviously, I am far from a Solaris wizard. I appreciate your paitence.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks
satchm0h

 

[aego]

Question : is vold at least working ?

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[satchm0h]

Well...it's running and not logging any errors. So I guess that means yes. I've restarted it and re-inserted the disk. Same problem.

satchm0h

 

[bluedragon2]

try:

ps -ef |grep vold

If it is running kill -9 the process then insert the CD then do a vold &



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[aego]

I guess for this Netra the CD-drive is internal...

Have you tried to changedir to /cdrom when the cd is inserted?

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