Execute in very verbose way. Useful for debugging possible problems
with grml-debootstrap or identify what's actually executed.
+*--efi* _device_::
+
+ Partition where EFI boot manager should be installed to. If the
+ specified device doesn't use a FAT filesystem yet grml-debootstrap
+ automatically creates the filesystem. If a FAT filesystem is already
+ present the filesystem creation is skipped. Please ensure that it's
+ a valid FAT32 filesystem and the partition has the 'boot' and 'esp'
+ flags enabled. This option requires EFI support on the running system
+ and the option is NOT supported for Virtual Machine deployments.
+
*--filesystem* _filesystem_::
Filesystem that should be created when installing to a partition.
squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch (note: requires a recent version of debootstrap)
and sid. Corresponding with configuration variable RELEASE.
+*--remove-configs*::
+
+ Delete grml-debootstrap configuration files (/etc/debootstrap/*) from installed
+ system. Useful for reproducible builds or if you don't want to leak information.
+
*-t*, *--target* _target_::
Target partition (/dev/...) or directory (anything else without /dev at the
Install default Debian release (jessie) on /dev/sda3 and install bootmanager
Grub in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda3 as system partition.
-Use specified mirror instead of the default (http://http.debian.net/debian) one.
+Use specified mirror instead of the default (http://httpredir.debian.org/debian) one.
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
grml-debootstrap --vmfile --vmsize 3G --target /mnt/sda1/qemu.img
mirror=...
Specify mirror which should be used for apt-get/aptitude instead
-of the default one (http://http.debian.net/debian).
+of the default one (http://httpredir.debian.org/debian).
Usage example: mirror=ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/debian
password=...
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[1] Please notice that lenny is an unsupported release within Debian nowadays.
grml-debootstrap can handle the release but you really should not use lenny
-anymore unless you really know what you are doing. Choose Debian 7.0 (wheezy) or
+anymore unless you really know what you are doing. Choose Debian 8.0 (jessie) or
something newer instead.
Notice that you need to specify a mirror providing the lenny release, the
-default (http://http.debian.net/debian) doesn't provide it any longer nowadays.
+default (http://httpredir.debian.org/debian) doesn't provide it any longer nowadays.
Set the mirror to e.g. http://archive.debian.org/debian/ if you don't have
your own lenny mirror.
+You also need to specify a filesystem that's supported by lenny, e.g.
+'--filesystem ext3' since grml-debootstrap's current default (ext4) isn't
+supported by lenny.
+
Also when debootstrapping lenny on a live system with a kernel version
like "3.16-1-grml-amd64" lenny's libc will fail to install with: