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[Albert Wagner]

Joel Goguen wrote:
> Try this:
> 
> # sudo sh /media/cdrom0/installUnix
> 
> On 10/2/06, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
>> I have downloaded and burned a cd from Cincom that is an installation
>> disk for Smalltalk. In the root directory of the cd (/media/cdrom0/)
>> there exists a shell (sh) file named installUnix which must be run. It
>> is owned by root and in group root with permissions -r-xr-xr-x.  In a
>> terminal I get:
>>
>> # /media/cdrom0
>> # ./installUnix
>> bash: ./installUnix: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
>> # /media/cdrom0
>> # sudo ./installUnix
>> sudo: unable to execute ./installUnix: Permission denied
>>
>> I get the same in a terminal invoked so:
>>
>> # sudo gnome-terminal
>> Password:
>> # /media/cdrom0
>> # ./installUnix
>> bash: ./installUnix: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
>> # /media/cdrom0
>> # whoami
>> root
>>
>> Do I have to activate root with a password in order to run this shell?

Thank you, Joel.  That got me part way(see below).  But I suspect that 
there are several more embedded permission issues.  I think that I'm 
just going to have to logon as root.

# sudo sh /media/cdrom0/installUnix
Password:
/media/cdrom0/installUnix: line 42: 
/media/cdrom0/vw7.4.1nc/bin/linux86/visual: Permission denied
/media/cdrom0/installUnix: line 42: 
/media/cdrom0/vw7.4.1nc/bin/linux86/visual: Success