> Is there a reason to run the CD as a normal user? I have been using > root up to now...
Naw, you can run the CD as root. It will then install everything with root as the owner. However, it is generally considered bad form to do normal work as root. Anyway, how do you know that I have not embedded nasty viruses on the CD which will trash your system if they have root permissions? >;-) Finally, the CD will also work just fine if you run it as a normal user. If you chose to install into a root-permission directory (e.g. /usr/local/ hierarchy), then it knows to ask you for root password, and then creates the directory as root, and gives it rwx permission for everybody. Stuart [1] I haven't done this, by the way. . . . .
