can't autorun from cd

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phillip1882
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can't autorun from cd

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i get a permission denied error when i try to run civ 4 from a cd, even under wine. i didnt see anything in the faq about this so i thought i would ask here if anyone knows how the get permission.
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vitamin
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Re: can't autorun from cd

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phillip1882 wrote:i get a permission denied error when i try to run civ 4 from a cd, even under wine. i didnt see anything in the faq about this so i thought i would ask here if anyone knows how the get permission.
Correct, cdroms are not mounted with execute permissions on files - which means you can not _run_ programs from there.

This is default "security" feature of your distro.
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fcmartins
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Post by fcmartins »

Usually I open a terminal and enter:

cd /media/cdrom
wine setup.exe

works for me in Ubuntu.
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