Hi, On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 14:52, Dave<tdbtdb+centos at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:04 AM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: >> In bash, you could probably stil run it with the "source" or "," >> command, e.g. >> >> . <the path to the script> >> source <the path to the script> > > Nope, in desperation I tried those also, to no avail. My problem was > that the disk was mounted noexec, and the OS refuses to run scripts > that are located on partitions mounted noexec. From my history file: Running the script with "sh /media/dvd/install" or ". /media/dvd/install" will work as long as the script does not invoke any other scripts (without "sh" or ".") or binaries in the same DVD, at that point it will fail due to the "noexec" mount option. This is probably what happened to you, and you interpreted that as the script not being able to run, while in fact it was running, only the binary it was calling was unable to run. I agree with Dave that the general solution to this problem (running software or installers from media) is to remount it with the "exec" option. HTH, Filipe