X-Git-Url: https://git.siccegge.de//index.cgi?p=forks%2Fvmdebootstrap.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=31ed67e225d7d67e0185fd0ee0250d6ec96a621f;hp=8e49163448f7127ddfa5187c029305846359363c;hb=536db55886d3d22e0ed6281aa7eaf28a383cd594;hpb=3106a9b2ea2a7778d1394a2c4b7e46ccbc39e6d7 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 --------