I haven’t had to use this since I worked at Access360, but for some strange reason, HP-UX cannot mount a CDROM natively. They have this strange NFS mount from within the machine. I’ve been dragging this around in my email archives for years and decided to post it where I can find it if I EVER need it again.

1) Start the mount daemon in the background
> pfs_mountd& 2) Start the pfs daemon in the background
> pfsd& 3) Check /etc/pfs_fstab to see if “/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /cdrom pfs-iso9660 xlat=unix 0 0″ exists.
Then, edit or add the above command inside the pfs_fstab file.

4) Mount the CDROM.
> pfs_mount /cdrom

What a messed up system!

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