Mount the DVD‌

If you are installing from a DVD, or copying its contents to a local disk, do the following:

  1. Log in to the root account.

  2. Mount the DVD using a drive located on your system or through NFS. The DVDs are in ISO 9660 format (with Rock Ridge information)

    • IBM AIX

      Mount the DVD at the mount point, for example:

      # mount -rv cdrfs /dev/cd0 /cdrom

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server

      If your system uses autofs and is configured correctly, it automatically mounts your DVD drive.

      If your system uses autofs but it is not configured, search the /etc/fstab file for a line similar to:

      /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

      Then mount the DVD using the following command:

      $ mount /dev/cdrom

      If your system does not use autofs, enter the following command:

      $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom