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Mounting a DVD drive on your server

Valid for Cloud Servers, migrated Cloud Servers, VPS, and VPS+ which are managed in the Cloud Panel.

This article explains how to mount a DVD drive on a server with the Linux operating system.

If you load a program or operating system DVD into the virtual DVD drive via the Cloud Panel, the drive is added to the server configuration during operation. This means that it is not necessary to restart the server.

Windows Server

For servers with a Windows Server operating system, the drive is automatically mounted and can be opened via Windows Explorer.

Linux Server

For Linux systems, you must mount the DVD drive. To do this, complete the following:

  • To create the mount directory, enter the following command:

    root@localhost:~# mkdir /mnt/dvd

  • Mount the DVD drive with the following command:

    root@localhost:~# mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
    mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

  • To verify the contents on the mounted DVD, enter the following command:

root@localhost:~# ls -ah /mnt/dvd
total 62M
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 2,0K 23. Aug 00:40 .
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4,0K 25. Nov 09:18 ..
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 2,0K 23. Aug 00:21 manifest.txt
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 1,9K 23. Aug 00:20 run_upgrader.sh
-r--r--r--  1 root root  61M 23. Aug 00:22 VMwareTools-9.4.10-2068191.tar.gz
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 678K 23. Aug 00:21 vmware-tools-upgrader-32
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 686K 23. Aug 00:20 vmware-tools-upgrader-64