[Wine] Install from CD? Executable permission not set?

[Charles Davis]

jage wrote:
> This has got to be an easy one, but I can't seem to find it.
> 
> I'm trying to run an install executable from a CD and the executable permission isn't set... but I can't set it because it's a read only CD.
> 
> Ubuntu 10.4
> Wine 1.1.38
> 
> I thought there was a way to disable the "run only executable" or whatever in Ubuntu, but I can't find it, googling executable is just a bunch of junk and the ubuntu IRCs were no help... again, I'm assuming it's something simple I'm missing.
Just mount the CD-ROM exec (instead of noexec), like so:

mount -o exec /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

And then all the files on the CD will have execute access.
> 
> Incidentally is there a Wine IRC for support?
As a matter of fact, there is. Check out #winehq on irc.freenode.net .

Chip