[plug] bad interpreter message in Bash

[J Michael Gilks]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:31 pm, Collin Baillie wrote:
> J Michael Gilks wrote:
> > Just came across a new problem while trying to install Oracle on Mandrake
> > 10.1 When I attempt to run the installer I get the following message
> >
> > [oracle at angua mike]$ /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller
> > bash: /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission
> > denied
> >
> > The permissions are
>
> A friend of mine came across this while trying to install 9i on a slackware
> system. It turned out for him that the were DOS end of line chatacters (^M)
> on all the newlines... so it's actually looking for /bin/sh^M for the
> interpreter.
>
> This may or may not be the case.
>
> Collin Baillie
>
Could be this problem is the one. I have checked all settings on the cdrom, 
they include exec and users, so there should be no problem. In fact it does 
work with another cd.
So will copy files to HD and see how a bit of judicious goes.

Thanks for all the help.

Love
Mike.