How to mount CD/DVD ROM on RHEL 7

Linux
Lubos Rendek
Redhat
14 November 2016
Contents

o 1. Objective
o 2. Requirements
o 3. Difficulty
o 4. Conventions
o 5. Instructions
 5.1. Locate Block device
 5.2. Create a mount point
 5.3. Mount CD/DVD temporarily
 5.4. Permanent CD/DVD mount using fstab

Objective
The objective is to mount a CD/DVD block device with ISO 9660 disk image/media.

Requirements
Privileged access to your Redhat 7 system.

Difficulty
EASY

Conventions
 # - requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either
directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
 $ - requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged
user
Instructions
Locate Block device

First we need to find a correct CD/DVD block device. To do this execute a

command blkid :

# blkid

/dev/xvda1: UUID="b4f59ae4-f5c8-49c2-94cf-103e10eef407" TYPE="xfs"

/dev/xvda2: UUID="zcwKzx-w2EM-NH4E-wQW3-7QTu-62JZ-s6Ok0j" TYPE="LVM2_member"

/dev/sr0: UUID="2016-10-19-18-32-06-00" LABEL="RHEL-7.3 Server.x86_64"

TYPE="iso9660" PTTYPE="dos"

/dev/mapper/rhel-root: UUID="ea637699-1d70-49ef-9a0a-54bc87d1e571" TYPE="xfs"

/dev/mapper/rhel-swap: UUID="617ccf82-602c-472d-bff6-484d95530293"
TYPE="swap"

Take a note of the relevant block device eg. /dev/sr0 and optionally also take a
note of the shown UUID 2016-10-19-18-32-06-00 .

Create a mount point

Next, create a new directory or use existing to be used as a mount point:

# mkdir /media/rhel7-repo-iso/

Mount CD/DVD temporarily

At this point you can mount your CD/DVD block device:

# mount /dev/sr0 /media/rhel7-repo-iso/

mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

OR

mount /dev/cdrom /media/rhel7-repo-iso/

Your CD/DVD files should now be accessible read-only:

# ls /media/rhel7-repo-iso/

addons EULA images LiveOS Packages repodata

RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

EFI GPL isolinux media.repo release-notes RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-beta

TRANS.TBL

Permanent CD/DVD mount using fstab

The above will mount your CD/DVD ROM only temporarily. In order to make this
mount permanent after reboot edit /etc/fstab configuration file by adding a
following line replacing UUID to match your previous blkid command output:

UUID=2016-10-19-18-32-06-00 /media/rhel7-repo-iso iso9660

ro,user,auto 0 0

After the reboot of your RHEL 7 Linux, the system will mount CD/DVD ROM
automatically.