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Re: Script to create bootable floppy image using genext2fs and grub with
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Robert Millan |
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Re: Script to create bootable floppy image using genext2fs and grub without root |
Date: |
Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:21:02 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.4i |
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:44:50PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:18:37PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >>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.
>
> Ah. e2tools look quite handy. I'll have to look at them.
> Does e2cp properly copy device nodes?
No idea. I only used it for normal files.
--
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)