Mount a CDROM in the Service Console

February 15, 2010 — 1 Comment

Mount a CD-ROM with the following command

mount /mnt/cdrom

Unmount with the following command

umount /mnt/cdrom

Usefull for when you are having to manually install device drivers for new NICS etc.

One response to Mount a CDROM in the Service Console

  1. 

    This simple command does not work on ESXi 4 from an SSH session.
    Do you have to be logged into the service console for this to work?
    Do you have to modify the /etc/fstab?

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