Mounting the installation media

If your DVD drive has been set up for automount, get the absolute path name for this device from the system administrator, change to this directory, and skip to “Setting up the sybase account.”

StepsMounting the product DVD

  1. Log in as a user with root privileges.

  2. Place the DVD into the DVD drive.

  3. Create a subdirectory of the root directory where you will mount the DVD, if one does not already exist. For example:

    % cd /
    % mkdir /dvd
    
  4. If your system does not automount, mount the DVD with a command similar to:

    % mount –o ro –F hsfs device_name /dvd
    

    where device_name is the name of the DVD drive and /dvd is the name of the directory where the DVD will be mounted.

  5. If your system does not automount, mount the DVD with a command like:

    % mount  -o ro  /dev/dvd  /dvd 
    
  6. Log out as root and type exit.