From 536db55886d3d22e0ed6281aa7eaf28a383cd594 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Wirzenius Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:17:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README with dependencies. Prompted by Asheesh Laroia. Thanks! --- README | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -------- -- 2.39.2