On Friday 03 August 2007 5:48 am, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> subbukk is correct about some versions of linux not allowing executables to
> be run from a removable device. To get around this, either copy the files
> to the hard disk, or mount the USB disk manually without using the "noexec"
> flag (see "man mount" for more info here - e.g. "mount /dev/sda1
> /mnt/usbdisk" - the usb disk is usually emulated as a SCSI device (!)).
The exact device path will change, so it is safer to mount a USB disk labeled 
MYUSB with:

  pmount -Ae $(blkid -o device -t LABEL=MYUSB) squeak

and open the location /media/squeak or /mnt/squeak. The "-e" option turns on 
execute permissions. The loginid should be a member of plugdev group to use 
pmount.

Subbu