Mounting cdrom

Lesd0 · 09-05-2014, 01:20 PM

Redhat 6.5
I am struggling to get the vmttools installed on the VMs. I can mount the cd rom but get the following error when trying to extract the tar file.
root@xxxx~# tar zxpf /mnt/vmwaretools-9.4.5-173405.tar.gz
tar (child):/mnt/vmwaretools-9.4.5-173405.tar.gz:Cannot open:No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable:exiting now
tar: child returned status Z
Tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I am a newbie who googles most things
Lesd0

coralfang · 09-05-2014, 01:52 PM

After mounting the cdrom on /mnt, what does the last few lines of `dmesg` output display?
It might tell you if there was a problem mounting it.

John VV · 09-05-2014, 03:06 PM

on 6.5 you really should not have to manually mount a dvd /cd drive

pop it in and it should just auto mount in /media

thesnow · 09-05-2014, 03:43 PM

Shot in the dark, but we had problems trying to install from a (local) CD drive mounted to the VM through VMWare. In the end we had to mount the ISO to the VM, and that worked. It gave similar errors.