gEDA-user: CD ISO install Issues

[Arthur Baldwin]

guys...you don't understand...I mounted the CD just fine....went to a terminal window and used chmod to make "installer" executable even...and tried to explicity run it...but it won't run because none of the files on the CD are writable (duh)...hence nothing works until transferred...

Stuart Brorson <sdb at cloud9.net> wrote:  >> * Some explanation about why you thought you needed to copy
>> everything to the hard drive. That is, what happened leading you
>> to take this step?
>
> his cdrom is being mounted noexec, this needs to be changed to exec.

Maybe. If so, then he neglected to read the following (from the
INSTALL file):

3. If your system doesn't automagically start the installer, mount
the CDROM (e.g. "mount -o exec -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom").
Mounting it with the -o flag set is important for Gentoo and
Debian; it allows executables to be run off the CD.

This tip is also in the wiki:

http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:installation#aaaargh_i_put_the_cd_into_my_reader_and_mounted_the_cd_but_nothing_happened

Stuart


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