X-Git-Url: https://git.siccegge.de//index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=31ed67e225d7d67e0185fd0ee0250d6ec96a621f;hb=0bc3dbfc1fc101a372572aab597175aad45c0be7;hp=8e49163448f7127ddfa5187c029305846359363c;hpb=b3bc735c387e3f9471067c4a0845c7d8d4b88c80;p=forks%2Fvmdebootstrap.git diff --git a/README b/README index 8e49163..31ed67e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 --------