Re: Problems excuting files on CD

[Chris Gray <cgray@tribsoft.com>]

>>>>> Stan Brown writes:

    sb> 	I am trying to install Orace on my recently built
    sb> Debian STABLE box.  Problem is I have to run the Oracle
    sb> installer as user Oracle, and I keep getting "Permission
    sb> Denied" when I try o excute it. It's in the CD which shows it
    sb> owbed by root with rwx--x--x permissions. I think i must not
    sb> be mounting the CD corectly, right? How ahould I be mounting
    sb> it?

You need to mount the CD with exec permissions.  Specifically, if you
mount it with the "user" option, it will not work.  I think the
solution is to type (as root)

# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

That is, don't let it use /etc/fstab.

-- 
Chris