On Sun 30 Oct 2016 at 09:19:04 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On Sunday, October 30, 2016 08:54:45 AM Brian wrote: > > There are some good things which have come out of this discussion. To > > use cfdisk, fdisk, dd, mkfs.vfat and grub-install a user has to be > > root. Being able to mount as non-root is neither here nor there on > > jessie and stretch for the purpose of installing GRUB, so references to > > pmount etc can go. > > Are you the maintainer or an author on that wiki page (the one that has been > discussed here)?
I don't think wiki pages have maintainers as such, just people who take an interest and provide additional information, corrections and updates. Yes, I am the originator of the page, but it is everyone's page. > If so, have you considered splitting the page into two pages, one for Wheezy > (or pre-Jessie) and one for Jessie? The intent would be to keep valid > information for Wheezy for people that might still need it. As it stands, anyone using pre-Jessie (that's a good way you found of putting it) could follow the instructions on the page and carry them out without needing root access. It should be possible to accomodate pre- and post-Jessie users on the same page by making the requirements for the different distributions clearer. After all, the commands to use are practically identical. A small extra section would do it. -- Brian.
