James Mansion wrote: > Bizarre - I've installed osol0811 under VMWare Workstation 6.5.1 on XP. > I'm trying to mount the VMWare tools virtual image, but having no joy. > I've tried with the CD rom emulated as IDE and SCSI to no avail. > > I use: rmformat -l > > and it tells me that its in /dev/rdsk/c4t15d0p0 (which matches the SCSI > id I specified) and the tize is detected at 7.8MB which I think is > reasonable for the tools. > > But then when I try to mount I always seem to get: > > # mount -f hsfs /dev/rdsk/c4t15d0p0 /cdrom > mount: /dev/rdsk/c4t15d0p0 is not a block device. > > I get the 'not a block device' pretty consistently whatever I try (ie > whether or not I try '-o ro' or to specifiy hsfs or let it guess. >
Because you're using "rdsk" in the device path, which is a character device. Change that to "dsk", and it'll be a block device. > I'd have hoped that the removable drive service would mount it for me > and it would show up in the Places on GNOME but no matter. > Strange that it doesn't. Dave
