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I have a self-extracting Bash installation script. I'd like to burn this to CD on my Windows box, drop that in a Linux box, and run the script straight off the CD drive.

Is there a way to add "+x" Permission on the Windows box when creating the CD?

I've been using the built in "writable folder"/"burn to disc" method, but think I have nero sitting around somewhere.

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You need the rock ridge extensions. But even so a CD is often mounted noexec, so that +x flag won't help you anyway. You can always run a script directly by invoking the shell,sh myscript.sh to get around that.

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Or, since it's a bash script, bash myscript.sh. – oKtosiTe Jan 22 '11 at 20:47
I ended up requiring the end user to call "bash script.sh", as I can't confirm that the disc will be mounted without noexec. – stormwald Jan 25 '11 at 19:52
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It seems your best bet would be Cygwin or MinGW to create the permissions for real.

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How would the execute bit be stored on CDFS? – oKtosiTe Jan 22 '11 at 20:46
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You need burning software that can handle Rock Ridge such as CDEveryWhere, GEAR PRO, or possibly mkisofs under Cygwin.

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