strange software installation problem

[Gil Hauer]

What is the first (or first few) lines of the script?

Gil

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 19:27, Alex Maynard wrote:
> 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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