diff --git a/livesupport/INSTALL b/livesupport/INSTALL
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5565dc49e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/livesupport/INSTALL
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    Copyright (c) 2004 Media Development Loan Fund
+ 
+    This file is part of the LiveSupport project.
+    http://livesupport.campware.org/
+    To report bugs, send an e-mail to bugs@campware.org
+
+    LiveSupport is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+    (at your option) any later version.
+ 
+    LiveSupport is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+    GNU General Public License for more details.
+ 
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+    along with LiveSupport; if not, write to the Free Software
+    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ 
+ 
+    Author   : $Author: maroy $
+    Version  : $Revision: 1.1 $
+    Location : $Source: /home/paul/cvs2svn-livesupport/newcvsrepo/livesupport/INSTALL,v $
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+For detailed installation instructions, see the doc/install.html document.
+
+For the impatient, do the following (make sure to run at least the
+bin/install.sh script as root):
+
+wget http://ls-demo.campware.org/download/livesupport-<version>.tar.bz2
+wget http://ls-demo.campware.org/download/livesupport-libraries-<version>.tar.bz2
+tar xfj livesupport-<version>.tar.bz2
+tar xfj livesupport-libraries-<version>.tar.bz2
+cd livesupport-<version>
+make setup && make compile
+./bin/install.sh -d /usr/local/livesupport -g apache
+ln -s /usr/local/livesupport/var /var/www/livesupport
+
+
+Then try the URL http://localhost/livesupport/htmlUI/var/html/ ,
+and log in using username: root, password: q.
+
+
+
+For more information, please visit http://livesupport.campware.org/
+
diff --git a/livesupport/bin/install.sh b/livesupport/bin/install.sh
index de6805f0b..b9af2f7ba 100755
--- a/livesupport/bin/install.sh
+++ b/livesupport/bin/install.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #
 #
 #   Author   : $Author: maroy $
-#   Version  : $Revision: 1.6 $
+#   Version  : $Revision: 1.7 $
 #   Location : $Source: /home/paul/cvs2svn-livesupport/newcvsrepo/livesupport/bin/Attic/install.sh,v $
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                                
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ printUsage()
     echo "  -P, --scheduler-port    The port of the scheduler daemon to install"
     echo "                          [default: 3344]";
     echo "  -s, --dbserver      The name of the database server host.";
-    echo "                      [default: same as host]";
+    echo "                      [default: localhost]";
     echo "  -u, --dbuser        The name of the database user to access the"
     echo "                      database. [default: livesupport]";
     echo "  -w, --dbpassword    The database user password.";
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ if [ "x$scheduler_port" == "x" ]; then
 fi
 
 if [ "x$dbserver" == "x" ]; then
-    dbserver=$hostname;
+    dbserver=localhost;
 fi
 
 if [ "x$database" == "x" ]; then
@@ -184,6 +184,18 @@ echo "  database user password: $dbpassword";
 echo "  apache daemon group:    $apache_group";
 echo ""
 
+# check for the apache group to be a real group
+group_tmp_file=/tmp/ls_group_check.$$
+touch $group_tmp_file
+test_result=`chgrp $apache_group $group_tmp_file 2> /dev/null`
+if [ $? != 0 ]; then
+    rm -f $group_tmp_file;
+    echo "Unable to use apache deamon group $apache_group.";
+    echo "Please check if $apache_group is a correct user group.";
+    exit 1;
+fi
+rm -f $group_tmp_file;
+
 
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  The details of installation