[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.
>
This has turned out to be exactly the case.
I copied all files to the HD, edited runInstaller.sh and it fired up.
I have now also edited the files to fool the installer into thinking I am 
running Redhat ES2. So now am installing from HD which should be quicker.

Thanks again.

Love
Mike