I have a some windows bin/cue files which i have made into isos using

bchunk file1.bin file1.cue file1.iso

which has worked great except that when i go to mount the iso the resulting .exe files are not executable. The man page for bchunk is little help in this area. I have tried making the .bin and .cue files executable first in the hopes that this setting would carry over, to no avail.

When I burn the image to cd and try to change permissions (obviously) I get the following

sudo chmod u+x /media/file1/playd2.exe
chmod: changing permissions of `/media/file1/playd2.exe': Read-only file sys

Also the command

mount -o remount,exec /media/file1

didnt seem to help resolve the issue.
Surely there is some way in Linux to force the creation of executable .exe files when making an iso? Making them under windows now would be like failure.....

thanks in advance

running linux mint 11 LXDE on Dell XPS M140 Laptop

Are you trying to execute a *.exe on linux? Thats never going to work, (unless you use wine)

The ISO9660 filesystem is read only. That is why you're chmod'ing wont work.

Yes sorry left that out.

the .exe in question is for running diablo II which i was able to successfully install using the iso i created and winetricks but when i try to run the game itself i get the never ending prompt to insert the Play Disc which is sitting in the cdrom tray ready to go. The only thing i can think of is that the game cant load it because it isnt executable....

If the game is asking you to insert the disk, then the game is executing...

I don't game, or use wine, so i cant help beyond recommending
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=49

Tried creating the iso as above then mounting before burning to see if I could change the permissions at this point

any thoughts?

btw I did read the wine page concerning Diablo II and while it was informative it didnt seem to address this issue

thanks again

The ISO9660 file system, by design, is read only...

You cant change the permissions on a file contained within a mounted ISO image.

It is not a problem with permissions..

I am guessing your problem is related to the fact wine doesn't see where you mounted the ISO to as being a cd drive, with a drive letter, and the diablo executable is (obviously) looking at X:\ rather than /mnt/diablo_iso or where ever.

taken from.... http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=49 (thats the same link i posted before by the way)

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