strange software installation problem

[Alex Maynard]

Hello,

Probably I'm just missing something silly and obvious, but I've got
a what looks like a strange problem trying to run an installation file for
the unix version of statistical package called stata.

The installation CDROM is mounted on the /cdrom. The permissions
(& other info) of the install file are (using ls -l):

ls /cdrom/install -l
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root  root   8281 Dec 23 2002

But if I try to run the file by typing (as root):

/cdrom/install

I get the error message:

bash: /cdrom/install: permission denied.

How can this be since (i) the file is executable and (ii) I am root.

This is on a laptop running debian. It installed fine earlier on a desktop
running Redhat. But should that really make much difference?

Alex







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