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`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
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