strange software installation problem

[Alex Maynard]

Hi Paul,

Thank you. Your suggestion below "bash /cdrom/install" worked, although
the strange thing is I didn't find "noexec" in /etc/fstab.

Alex

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Paul Mora wrote:

> Hi Alex.
>
> I'm not familiar with Debian per se, but it could be that the CD-ROM is
> mounted with the "noexec" option, which disables the execution of
> programs directly from it.  I've seen this as default in other distros.
> Check your /etc/fstab, look for the line that corresponds to your
> CD-ROM, and see if there's a "noexec" option there.  If so, remove it,
> and the remount the CD with "mount -o remount /cdrom".
>
> You can also get around it by just running "bash /cdrom/install" if the
> program is a shell script.
>
> pm
>
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