Why do I only see the Macintosh partition when I try to mount the CD-ROM drive?

On each Mathematica CD, there are two partitions: HFS (for Macintosh systems) and ISO 9660 (for all others). If you only see the Macintosh partition, your CD is not mounted correctly. It is possible that your system is configured to automount CDs as they are detected, and the automounter is seeing the HFS partition first.

To mount the CD as an ISO 9660 partition, use the command

mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/<device> /cdrom

This information is also available in the manual Getting Started with Mathematica.

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