Re: [Qemu-discuss] accessing cd image, solaris 2.5.1

[Basil Huffman]

Sorry for the delay, I had other things I need to take care of and am rotating back to this.

When I pass the iso in as the -cdrom option and check to see if it has been automounted (via mount), I see that is has not. I still am unable to mount it and get this message:

# mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/sr0 /mnt
mount: /dev/sr0 is already mounted, /mnt is busy,
        or allowable number of mount points exceeded

Assuming that /dev/sr0 *is* my cdrom device, what is going on? Do I need to add a few lines into vfstab to get this to mount?

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Jakob Bohm <address@hidden> wrote:

On 9/17/2012 8:34 PM, Basil Huffman wrote:

Hello all, I used Artyom Tarasenko's tutorial on installing Solaris on qemu.  I have Solaris 2.5.1 installed to a disk image. I now need to install some software, from cd onto my disk image.

I have made an iso of the cd and have tried to access it by doing the following:

1. qemu-system-sparc -M SS-5 -m 256 -nographic -bios ss5.bin -hdb solaris.disk -cdrom CD.iso

I try to mount it via (as instructions from the software): "mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/sr0 /mnt"

And the following error message is displayed:

mount: /dev/sr0 is already mounted, /mnt is busy,
        or allowable number of mount points exceeded


2. qemu-system-sparc -M SS-5 -m 256 -nographic -bios ss5.bin -hdb solaris.disk -hdc CD.iso

I then tried this method, as Artyom mentions that there are some cd issues when dealing with Solaris 2.5.1 (I had to install to the disk via a manner similar to this).

I then try to mount it via: "mount /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 /mnt"

But the following error message is displayed:

nfs mount: nfs file system; use host:path

I am unsure if my issue is with qemu, with solaris, or a combination of both. How can I go about accessing and mounting the cd image?

-Basil

I think your problem is with Solaris and its famous automounter.

In your first attempt, Solaris had probably already mounted the CD for
you, typing mount with no arguments should help you figure out where it
is mounted.

In your second attempt, you probably ran into some more tricky Solaris
mount problems, which I don't know about.

Another possibility for both attempts is if Solaris is already using
the directory "/mnt" for its own purposes, so try a different location.

Enjoy

Jakob
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