First you must create an entry in /etc/filesystems, and then use the mount command.
To create the entry in /etc/filesystems follow these steps:
1. enter SMIT with the command "smitty" and then navigate the menus as follows:
choose System Storage Management (Physical & Logical Storage), choose File Systems, choose Add/Change/Show/Delete File Systems, choose CDROM File Systems, choose Add a CDROM File System.
2. This brings you to the screen to specify information about the filesystem.
Press F4 to get a list of valid devices to choose from to enter into the Device Name field; cd0 is the built-in CD-ROM device. For the Mount Point field, enter "/mnt" if you will be mounting this CD-ROM temporarily, like for a software installation. Choose some other valid directory name that better describes the compact disc's contents if you will usually have a specific compact disc mounted from an additional CD-ROM drive that has been added to your system.
3. After the command completes, exit smitty. You then finish mounting the compact disc by issuing the command
mount <mount point name> (Where <mount point name> was /mnt or some other directory specified in smitty.)
4. At this point, you should be able to list the contents of the top-level directory structure of the compact disc with the command:
ls <mount point name>
This article was published in the 18 June 1997 "Information Alley".