How to use another server's CD

FredSmith · November 14, 2006, 8:22am

I have a Sun server with a broken CD drive. I have a 2nd Sun server next to it.

How can I make ServerA "mount" ServerB's CDrom?

RTM · November 14, 2006, 10:20am

From Sunsolve:

How to NFS share/mount a CD-ROM:

1) First you need to share the resource on the NFS server (the system
with the CD-ROM locally).

Edit the /etc/dfs/dfstab file and add the following entry:
share -F nfs -o ro /cdrom/cdrom0/s0 
Then run the following command:
shareall
If this is the first time that the NFS server has shared
out a resource then do the following to start the nfs server daemons:
/etc/init.d/nfs.server start
2) Now mount the CD-ROM on the remote system.

Run showmount to verify that the NFS server is sharing out the CD-ROM:
showmount -e &lt;NFS-server-name&gt;
Mount the CD-ROM:
mount -rF nfs &lt;NFS-server-name&gt;:/cdrom/cdrom0 /cdrom

dangral · November 14, 2006, 11:28am

Another idea is to create a disk image from the cd, transfer the image to your server and mount the image.