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| author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2011-06-12 12:17:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2011-06-12 12:17:45 +0100 |
| commit | 536db55886d3d22e0ed6281aa7eaf28a383cd594 (patch) | |
| tree | 47a9f4c696b41871eb15527cb2111cd4734aecd7 /README | |
| parent | 3106a9b2ea2a7778d1394a2c4b7e46ccbc39e6d7 (diff) | |
| download | vmdebootstrap-536db55886d3d22e0ed6281aa7eaf28a383cd594.tar.gz | |
Update README with dependencies.
Prompted by Asheesh Laroia. Thanks!
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@@ -2,13 +2,27 @@ README for vmdebootstrap ======================== `debootstrap` installs a basic Debian system into a directory, for use with -`chroot`(8). `vmdeboostrap` is a wrapper around it to install Debian into a disk -image, which can be used with a virtual machine (such as KVM). +`chroot`(8). `vmdeboostrap` is a wrapper around it to install Debian into +a disk image, which can be used with a virtual machine (such as KVM). See the manual page and `vmdebootstrap --help` for details on how to use the program. The manual page has an example. +What you need +------------- + +In order to use vmdebootstrap, you'll need a few things: + +* debootstrap +* extlinux +* qemu-img (in the qemu-utils package in Debian) +* parted +* mbr +* kpartx +* python-cliapp (see http://liw.fi/cliapp/) + + Legalese -------- |