Re: gEDA-user: cdrom install question

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

One thing:  Depending upon your machine, it can take several hours for
a complete install.   Don't get nervous -- just let the installer run
& all will be good.

Oh, wait, you're installing on gentoo.  You're used to long installs!

:-)

Stuart


> 
> yeah, that made it work. 
> thanks for everyone's help!
> 
> Ken
> 
> --- Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Here's how Ales got the installer to work on his
> > Debian box.  You may
> > need to do the same thing:  
> > 
> > <Ales_quote>
> > 
> > Also I got the installer to run off of the cdrom if
> > I mounted
> > the cdrom as:
> >   
> > mount /cdrom -o exec
> > 
> > </Ales_quote>  
> > 
> > Stuart
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Friday 28 January 2005 01:20, Kenneth Long
> > wrote:
> > > > I'm in my place where I want to install it.
> > > > bash-2.05b# pwd
> > > > /home/kelargo/geda
> > > > bash-2.05b# /mnt/cdrom0/installer.exe --log
> > --verbose
> > > > bash: /mnt/cdrom0/installer.exe: Permission
> > denied
> > > > bash-2.05b#
> > > >
> > > > What other info can I gather?
> > > 
> > > Could it be that you dont have exec permissions on
> > the cdrom device, as a 
> > > mount option? 
> > > afaik, if you use user or users in your mount
> > options, then you need to 
> > > specify exec in your /etc/fstab options field.
> > > 
> > > HTH,
> > > 
> > > StevenR
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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