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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). `vmdebootstrap` 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
 --------
 
-Copyright 2011  Lars Wirzenius
+Copyright 2011-2013  Lars Wirzenius
+Copyright 2012  Codethink Limited
  
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by