Mount CDROM in AIX

1. Logon as root.  If there is CD inside, remove the CD using umount command.

# umount /mycdrom

Additional note:
In this example, /mycdrom is the mount point directory for the CD-ROM drive.

2. Insert a CD and run following command to mount it.

# /usr/sbin/mount -rv cdrfs /dev/<cd-device-name> /mycdrom

3. Now, you can access the CD contents.

# cd /mycdrom
# ls

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