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I have a piece of software that I want to install but it comes on a cd and you have to install it via cdrom. When I type the install command /mnt/cdrom/install* mandrake 10.1 (which is what I am using) it comes up with the error message
bash: /mnt/cdrom/install: /bin/sh: Bad Interpreter: Permission denied
I think you are not allowed to execute programs from your cdrom or you have to be root. You can simply copy the program somewhere in your system and install it from there. An alternative would be to remove the "noexec" from the appropriate lines for your device in /etc/fstab or add the "exec" int the options for your device.
I had a look in fstab and there was no "noexec" term but there was an exec term. There was also a noauto term but I removed that and there was still no difference.
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