Re: Script to create bootable floppy image using genext2fs and grub without root

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:18:37PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> For what it's worth, I just wrote a little
> script that shows how to generate a bootable
> ext2 floppy using grub and genext2fs without
> being root.
> 
> I wrote this mostly because Thierry Larode and Robert Milan's mkbimage 
> script,
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/grub/grub/util/mkbimage,
> requires root privs, and I wanted to show that there is
> no need for root privs (or 'fakeroot') to make a bootdisk,
> at least for ext2.

mkbimage doesn't need root anymore, since it can use e2tools
when these are present.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)