13.3 The CD-ROM

This section explains the organization of the LispWorks 7.1 CD-ROM which contains the LispWorks products you have bought, and how to mount it.

13.3.1 The LispWorks 7.1 CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains images for LispWorks 7.1 and associated products on your platform or platforms.

13.3.1.1 CD-ROM format

The files on the CD-ROM were created with the UNIX tar command.

13.3.2 Unpacking LispWorks products

There are two basic steps in unpacking a LispWorks product from the CD-ROM:

Mount the CD-ROM so that it can be accessed as part of your UNIX filesystem. This is described in Mounting the CD-ROM.
Extract the product files from the tar file containing them. This is described in Installing LispWorks.

13.3.3 Mounting the CD-ROM

Before you can access the files on the CD-ROM, it has to be mounted onto your UNIX filesystem. You may need root access on your machine to do this.

Solaris provides an automounting daemon. Place the CD-ROM in the drive and it will be automatically mounted to:


/cdrom/lw_71/

To unmount:


umount /cdrom/lw_71/

When you can see the tar files on your UNIX filesystem, you are ready to unpack them. Once you are finished with the tar files on the CD-ROM, you can remove it from your drive, but only after you have performed an "unmount" operation.

When unmounting it is necessary that no process has the CD-ROM mount point as the current directory, and again, root access is necessary. Pushing the eject button on the drive may not do anything until the volume has been unmounted.