X-Git-Url: https://git.siccegge.de//index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=31ed67e225d7d67e0185fd0ee0250d6ec96a621f;hb=2228e98ba0b34a0c4b525ddd0cb8f384d25a5991;hp=be4ea6a1aa7176b5baa1cd31a9e6b1350b288445;hpb=a5a04c0bb75de9653693eaa029ba8b7f84cad820;p=forks%2Fvmdebootstrap.git diff --git a/README b/README index be4ea6a..31ed67e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,8 +2,25 @@ 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