[UFO Chicago] Oracle installer & Linux

[Nate Riffe]

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On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Fawad Halim wrote:

> Hi.
>   I'm trying to burn an Oracle 8.1.7 for Linux (the
> current Oracle8i on technet.oracle.com) CD. I
> downloaded the tarball, and made the iso (Rock
> Ridge/Joliet) using mkisofs. I mounted the iso image
> as loop, and the installer worked just fine. However,
> once I burnt the CD, and tried to install from  it, I
> get an error
> fawad@chuckie:linux$ file runInstaller
> runInstaller: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
> version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not
> stripped
> fawad@chuckie:linux$ ls -l
> total 36
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 fawad    fawad       35281 Jan 16
> 2001 runInstaller
> fawad@chuckie:linux$ file runInstaller
> runInstaller: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
> version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not
> stripped
> fawad@chuckie:linux$ ./runInstaller
> bash: ./runInstaller: Permission denied
>
> It gives me the same error even when run under root.
>

Is your CD mounted with the "noexec" option?

- -Nate

>
> -fawad
>
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