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Mounting a software disc

Veritas software is provided on a DVD format disc.

 To mount the software disc

  1. Log in as superuser.
  2. Place the Veritas software disc into a DVD drive connected to your system.
  3. Mount the disc by determining the device access name of the DVD drive. The format for the device access name is cdx where x is the device number. After inserting the disc, type the following commands:

# mkdir -p /cdrom

# mount -V cdrfs -o ro /dev/cdX /cdrom

  1. Change to the appropriate AIX distribution directory and product subdirectory to view the product release notes and installation guides.