{"id":523,"date":"2011-03-11T00:21:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/?p=523"},"modified":"2023-04-28T09:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T09:50:38","slug":"how-to-resolve-mount-mount-point-cdrom-does-not-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/how-to-resolve-mount-mount-point-cdrom-does-not-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Resolve mount: mount point \/cdrom does not exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you install the CentOS in VM ESX\/ESXi server with minimum packages without GUI(Graphical User Interface), you have to know more about the linux command. I believe most of the VMware administrators or Linux administrators facing the same problem when trying to install\/upgrade VMware\u00a0 tools on Linux VM guest.\u00a0 Anyway, there is the simple steps to resolve this problem.<\/p>\n<p>Problem Encountered:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<pre class=\"code\">[root@vmserver ~]# mount \/dev\/cdrom \/cdrom\nmount: mount point \/cdrom does not exist\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<pre class=\"code\">[root@vmserver ~]# cd \/\n[root@vmserver \/]# mkdir cdrom\n[root@vmserver \/]# mount \/dev\/cdrom \/cdrom\n[root@vmserver \/]# cd \/cdrom\n[root@vmserver cdrom]# ls\nmanifest.txt  VMwareTools-8.3.2-257589.tar.gz\n[root@vmserver cdrom]# cp VMwareTools-8.3.2-257589.tar.gz \/tmp\n[root@vmserver cdrom]# cd \/\n[root@vmserver \/]# umount cdrom\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you install the CentOS in VM ESX\/ESXi server with minimum packages without GUI(Graphical User Interface), you have to know more about the linux command. I believe most of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[996,1083],"tags":[1536,1895],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-vmware","tag-linux","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}