jage wrote: > This has got to be an easy one, but I can't seem to find it. > > I'm trying to run an install executable from a CD and the executable permission isn't set... but I can't set it because it's a read only CD. > > Ubuntu 10.4 > Wine 1.1.38 > > I thought there was a way to disable the "run only executable" or whatever in Ubuntu, but I can't find it, googling executable is just a bunch of junk and the ubuntu IRCs were no help... again, I'm assuming it's something simple I'm missing. Just mount the CD-ROM exec (instead of noexec), like so: mount -o exec /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom And then all the files on the CD will have execute access. > > Incidentally is there a Wine IRC for support? As a matter of fact, there is. Check out #winehq on irc.freenode.net . Chip
