> Here's a guess:
>
> FTP tends to remove the 'execute' permission bits from files that you download
> (for security reasons, I assume). You might need to run "chmod a+x" on any
> executable files before writing them to the CD (or just run "chmod -R a+x" on
> the whole directory tree to ensure you catch everything).
>
> -Mike <mmontour@iname.com> (with 5.1 on order from RedHat)
If anybody is interested, this was the correct solution. I had the VFAT
partition, where I kept the directory tree for the CD image mounted with noexec,
and so the install failed. Changing that back to exec resulted in a fully
functioning CD. Thanks, Mike.
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