Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (668 mails)

[mantel@xxxxxxx (Hubert Mantel)]

Hi,

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Rick Knebel wrote:

> I am a little new to linux. I have installed redhat a few times without problems.
> Got through the install process without too much problems with suse and even have x 
> windows working.
> I would like to use the copy of Accelerated X version 4.0 that I have though. I keep 
> running into this problem though.
> I mount the cdrom and go to the correct directory , but when I try to type ./Install like I 
> have done on previous installs I get the mesaage bash:permission denied.
> I tried to do the install on another computer with redhat running and everything worked 
> fine.
> Does this make sense to anyone?

Due to popular demand, we mount CD-ROMs with the "user" option, which
allows a normal user to mount a CD. But this implies (for security
reasons) "noexec", so you cannot execute binaries directly from the CD.
Solution: Modify your /etc/fstab thus:

/dev/hda  /cdrom   iso9660    ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

and remount the CD or use the long form of the mount command. This means,
do not mount the CD-ROM using the command

mount /cdrom

but use

mount /dev/<device> -tiso9660 -oro /cdrom

instead.

> Does anyone use AccelX 4.0 with Suse 5.1?

The last time I checked AccelX it was not possible to use a resolution of
1280x960 but I had to use 1280x1024 instead. This is incorrect, because
the width:heigth ratio should be 4:3 (as it is in 800x600, 1024x768 and so
on). Because of this limitation (that XFree86 does not have), AccelX is
unusable for me, because I want a circle to be a circle and not an
ellipse. 

> Thanks Alot.

    Hubert


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