Re: how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root?

[Harald Dunkel]

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On 01/21/11 13:49, WANG Cong wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:47:56 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>>
>> First, at least on x86, the kernel will look for the 'installkernel'
>> executable first in your own ~/bin/, so if you have that then it will
>> override /sbin/installkernel.
>>
> 
> That still doesn't look like a good solution.
> 

Same for me.

Obviously running /sbin/installkernel is not reasonable for
UID != 0 (or if $FAKEROOTKEY is set), so I would suggest to
skip /sbin/installkernel and the default Lilo setup in
install.sh for this case.


Only a suggestion, of course.

Regards

Harri
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