[TriLUG] Ubuntu on my laptop, wow

[Tanner Lovelace]

Sounds like the cd is mounted with the "noexec" option.
Try getting it mounted without that (i.e. with exec instead)

Cheers,
Tanner

On 6/26/05, Randall Barlow <rpbarlow at ncsu.edu> 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".  I've tried
> running it logged in as root, using su, using "su -", and also sudo.  I
> seem to get the same error every time.  I've check the fstab file, which
> does not have the "noexec" flag.  The permissions on the file are:
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     76 Jan  9  2004 install_unix.sh
> 
> so it seems to have execute permissions (unless I am not reading that
> line right, which is entirely possible :))  Any ideas of anything else I
> could check?
> 
> Randy Barlow
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