[TriLUG] Ubuntu on my laptop, wow

[T. Bryan]

On Sunday 26 June 2005 20:20, Randall Barlow wrote:
> OK, so I've run into a little problem with Ubuntu.  I'm trying to
> install MATLAB from a CD, but the install script keeps failing.
>
> root at overthruster:/media/cdrom0 # sh install_unix.sh
> install_unix.sh: /media/cdrom0/unix/install: /bin/sh: bad interpreter:
> Permission denied
>
> The same thing happens if I run it as "./install_unix.sh".  

You could try bash instead.

> I've check the fstab file, which
> does not have the "noexec" flag.  The permissions on the file are:

Is the default exec or noexec?  Maybe you should add the exec flag to the 
options?

See, for example, this page
http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=111761

---Tom