Mounting the CD-ROM on Unix (or VMS) Systems

The CD-ROM is written to ISO-9660 standards with all internal hypertext links in uppercase. In order to mount the CD-ROM under Unix, various options must be used depending on the specific Unix operating system in use. Tried and tested examples are given below: 

Red Hat Linux v5.2
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mount -o check=relaxed /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom  (as root user)
 
Alpha VMS v6.2
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$ MOUNT DKA400 SPACE_GROUPS (as SYSTEM user)
%MOUNT-I-WRITELOCK, volume is write locked
%MOUNT-I-CDROM_ISO, SPACE_GROUPS: (1 of 1) , mounted on  _ALPHA$DKA400:

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