strange software installation problem

[Anton Markov]

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what is the output of:

ls -l /cdrom

Alex Maynard wrote:
> 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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