If you are having trouble mounting a CD or DVD in Solaris, you are not alone!

First you need to find the CD/DVD drive. You can do this by using the following command:

iostat -Ee

This will list all your drives, just look for the one which has 0GB storage, or the model number of your CD-ROM drive.

Once you have found that, you need to create the directory to mount the CD-ROM drive, and then mount the CD-DROM drive:

mkdir /cdrom
chmod a+wrx
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0 /cdrom

Where c0t0d0p0 is the device ID of your CD-ROM drive.

NOTE: We had an issue where iostat -Ee only listed part of the model number (c0t0d0) and we had to add p0 to the end to get it working. We found this out be browsing /dev/dsk/ and finding all devices with c0t0d0 in them.