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How do I eject a CD in Solaris 10?

The only way I have discovered so far is to start the CD Player application and use it's eject button!

[110 byte] By [MattBeard2a] at [2007-11-26 17:12:34]

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# 1

if it is a data disk, under java desktop you can right click the desktop icon and choose "eject"...you can also eject from command line by typing "eject"for more info ... > man ejectall the best

philBrowna at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

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# 2

What if it is a blank CD-R?

MattBeard2a at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 3

eject from command line works fine for medo you have volmgt running? /etc/init.d/volmgt startsee also volcheck

philBrowna at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 4

This is all so much like hard work!Why can't I just use the eject button built into the drive? It works fine in windows, I can't believe that it's so hard to program that.

MattBeard2a at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 5

in that case, you'll also want to read the "mount" manpage

philBrowna at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 6

I read the 'mount' man page, but it didn't really help me much.

Instead I tried plan B and installed Ubuntu - guess what... I can use the eject button in Ubuntu.

looks like Solaris is stuck back where Linux used to be - an Operating System written by geeks and system operators for geeks and system operators.

How do I explain to my wife, or my elderly mother etc. that in order to remove the CD they put in the drive they have to open a terminal window and type a strange command. I'll simply get the reply "but there's an eject button on the drive - and it used to work before you 'upgraded' my PC". That is a complaint that I can't fight because I agree with them!

MattBeard2a at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 7

You're right, Solaris isn't a good choice for everyday home users. Windows is your "easy end user home use OS". Solaris is the "solid, stable, development/server/business use platform", and Linux is the in between OS for people that need a little of both worlds.

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DoxBriana at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 8

Hi guys,

with CDE you can eject all kind of cd and dvd without opening a terminal window. Seems that the JDS guys have invest some more work to provide a funktional desktop for home-users.

by the way:

I also tried to install Ubuntu on an old Dell Insipiron 1100 Desktop and it failed (display problems with agpgart/xorg)

The latest Opensolaris Build did work with no problems... ;-)

Cheers,

Fabian

Fabiana at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 9

Yeah, it seems that life outside the M$ world is a bit hit-and-miss.

I absolutely hate where they are going with Vista and I have vowed that there is no way I'm going there (or helping any of my friends or family go that way) but what is the alternative?

If you could run OS X on non-Apple hardware i would go down that route. It's not 100%, but it is good enough - this is being posted from an iMac.

I have tried many Linux distro's and they generally suck as far as end-user usability is concerned (but they are getting better).

Ubuntu is the easiest I have found so far - but even that required some hacking to get my NVidia 6200 running above 1024x768.

I was hoping that Solaris was the solution to all my woes! But, after wasting an entire 2 days trying to get it to install I gave up. I couldn't even get it to read a standard 1.44Mb floppy (required to try and install some drivers that prevented the network from working). The CD and DVD-ROM drives were patchy and so infuriating (eject wise and manual mounting required sometimes). Maybe with "approved hardware" it would have been easier - but then if i need special hardware I would rather buy a Mac.

Maybe this is yet another case of "your mileage may vary"

MattBeard2a at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 10

associating your name to a specific OS can be quite an emotional affair.

all os's have there merits, it's a matter of determining what you need to use yours for. when I first started out with solaris I tried to get xine installed and I swear, I thought the freemasons were less secretive, by the amount of response I received.

I still do not have xine installed, however I can swear by solaris as a rock solid development platform for java and c++ . docbook tools are excellent and so is networking support, after all it IS UNIX. there is all the office productivity apps I'll ever need <scathingly>except adobe acrobat reader for x86</scathingly>and we all have evolution for email.

oh and about dvd's... i bought a dvd player from asda for 9 quid (approx $15US)

good luck with ubuntu, but I hope you also see the benefits of Solaris as well.

philBrowna at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 11

Hi,

I agree with Phil but I think that the problem is not Solaris itself or missing drivers.The Problem is the JDS 3 Desktop (Gnome for Solaris) . I assume that you would not have any problems with your Floppydrive if you have used the CDE Desktop.

But JDS will be better in future Solaris Versions:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/

To checkout if your hardware is supported by future solaris versions you could try this live-CD:

http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/

also this is interesting:

http://www.genunix.org/distributions/gnusolaris/

For personal use I (and also my wife) we currently use SolarisExpress.

Of course:

Good luck with your Ubuntu Installation!!

Regards,

Fabian

Fabiana at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 12

I've installed Solaris on quite a few white box machines I put together from parts grabbed off the shelf (new and used). Haven't yet had any issues other than sometimes a NIC not being recognized (in which case I just pick up a $5 used 3com card) :) So, YMMV indeed :)

I'm currently using a SunBlade 150 (SPARC) for my workstation now though. Was using x86, then I needed to open a certain PDF... Came up all scrambled in the built-in viewer and I found out that Adobe only has a SPARC version...

DoxBriana at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

# 13

Hi,> I found out that Adobe only> has a SPARC version...Right! Hopefully Adobe will get it and provide a version of Acrobat Reader 8 for x86...Cheers,Fabian

Fabiana at 2007-7-8 23:40:27 >

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