README

   1 README for vmdebootstrap
   2 ========================
   3
   4 `debootstrap` installs a basic Debian system into a directory, for use with
   5 `chroot`(8). `vmdeboostrap` is a wrapper around it to install Debian into
   6 a disk image, which can be used with a virtual machine (such as KVM).
   7
   8 See the manual page and `vmdebootstrap --help` for details on how to
   9 use the program. The manual page has an example.
  10
  11
  12 What you need
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  14
  15 In order to use vmdebootstrap, you'll need a few things:
  16
  17 * debootstrap
  18 * extlinux
  19 * qemu-img (in the qemu-utils package in Debian)
  20 * parted
  21 * kpartx
  22 * python-cliapp (see http://liw.fi/cliapp/)
  23
  24
  25 Legalese
  26 --------
  27
  28 Copyright 2011  Lars Wirzenius
  29
  30 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  31 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  32 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  33 at your option) any later version.
  34
  35 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  36 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  37 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  38 GNU General Public License for more details.
  39
  40 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  41 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  42