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  From: Rick McQueen-Thomson <rmcqt@mail.mcmedia.com.au>
  To  : Phil Pittard <vk5ham@seol.net.au>
  Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 22:56:56 +1100

Re: Caldera Problems as a Newbie

Dear Phil,

	Many thanks for your prompt reply.  I agree with you on the impossibility
of writing to a CD-ROM player.  I also tried moving the install.wp script
to another directory on my hard disk.  It went through the installation
procedure without loading anything.  

	Do I need to load the whole CD-ROM onto my hard disk.  I think I have
enough room, as I have 4 Gb of space, but this seems a crazy procedure.

Cheers,   Rick


At 10:09 PM 18/11/99 +1030, you wrote:
>Hi... for what its worth its just a tad difficult to chmod 755
>/cdrom/filename :) ... and I think thats part of the problem... from
>memory there was some wierdness with the install scripts for WP8 or Star
>Office (maybe even both- its ages ago since i played with them) and you
>needed to copy some of the stuff into a writable directory cos the
>scripts wanted to write & couldnt do so on the CD!! 
>
>The scripts may well have been fixed in the latest dist's in which case
>just cd to the directory where the files are & then type ./install  (or
>whatever the install script is called.) If that doesnt work copy it into
>a hard drive partition.
>
>Cya, Phil
>------------------------
>Benjamin Close wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rick McQueen-Thomson wrote:
>> 
>> >       I am not used to this system or indeed to Linux, so if I offend
local
>> > mores, please forgive.
>> 
>> We have all had to learn how to use linux :)
>> 
>> >       I have a problem with Caldera OpenLinux ver 2.3.  I installed it
>> > successfully enough on my machine.  As root user, I then tried to mount a
>> > WordPerfect ver 8 disc, which was mounted OK.  I then tried to follow the
>> > instructions which involved setting the directory to /mnt/cdrom and
typing
>> > ./install.wp and I got "permission denied" as superuser.  I tried the
same
>> > with StarOffice 5.1 (cd/mnt/linux/office51 type ./setup) and again got
>> > "permission denied".
>> >
>> >       There is obviously something simple I am missing here, but I don't
>> > understand what.  I have tried fairly extensive reading to no avail.  I
>> > would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.
>> 
>> It sounds to me like the files do not have the executable permission set.
>> Not even root can run a file if it's not executable. A little example...
>> 
>> I have a file called hello which outputs "hello world" now:
>> 
>> ls -l gives:
>> -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root           17 Nov 18 21:07 hello
>> 
>> [root@Bytes4U /root]# ./hello
>> bash: ./hello: Permission denied
>> 
>> [root@Bytes4U /root]# chmod u+x hello
>> [root@Bytes4U /root]# ls -l hello
>> -rwxrw-r--   1 root     root           17 Nov 18 21:07 hello
>>    ^
>>    |-- notice the difference
>> 
>> [root@Bytes4U /root]# ./hello
>> hello world
>> 
>> So you can either set the execute permissions as above or type:
>> sh ./filename
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> 
>> * Benjamin Close
>> * Benjsc@senet.com.au
>> * Web Page: http://users.senet.com.au/~benjsc
>> 
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