------------
grml-debootstrap is a wrapper suite around debootstrap (and cdebootstrap if you
-want) for installing a plain Debian system (e.g. via Grml) very fast and easy.
+want) for installing a plain Debian system very fast and easy.
All you have to do is adjust a few variables in the configuration file
/etc/debootstrap/config or specify some command line options and invoke
Default directory: /etc/debootstrap/scripts/
*-t*, *--target* _target_::
+
Target partition (/dev/...) or directory (anything else without /dev at the
beginning).
*-v*, *--verbose*::
+
Increase verbosity.
*--vmfile*::
+
Set up a Virtual Machine instead of installing to a partition or directory.
This allows deployment of a Virtual Machine. The options needs to be
combined with the --target option.
Usage example: --vmfile --target /mnt/sda1/qemu.img
*--vmsize* _size_::
+
Use specified size for size of Virtual Machine disk file. If not specified it
defaults to 2G (being 2GB). Syntax as supported by qemu-img (see manpage
qemu-img(1) for details.
Usage example: --vmsize 3G
*-V*, *--version*::
+
Show version of program and exit.
-WARNING: the command line parsing of grml-debootstrap does not validate the provided
-arguments for the command line options. Please be careful and check docs and
-/etc/debootstrap/config for further information.
+WARNING: the command line parsing of grml-debootstrap usually does not validate
+the provided arguments for the command line options. Please be careful and check
+docs and /etc/debootstrap/config for further information.
Usage examples
---------------
/etc/debootstrap/config
-Main configuration file. You have to adjust it according to your needs
-if you want to execute grml-debootstrap in the non-interactive mode without
-any special command line arguments.
+Main configuration file. Adjust it according to your needs if you want to
+execute grml-debootstrap in the non-interactive mode without any special command
+line arguments.
/etc/debootstrap/chroot-script
Debian Packages dropped in this directory will be installed into the new Debian
system by default (Control variable: EXTRAPACKAGES)
- /etc/debootstrap/stages/
-
-The default directory for storing information about executed stages. Every
-single function of grml-debootstrap will write 'done' to the stages directory
-into a file named as the function itself if it has been executed successfully.
-You can adjust the location of the directory via configuration variable STAGES
-via /etc/debootstrap/config. Please notice that you have to remove the stages
-directory on your own if you want to re-execute grml-debootstrap after running it
-successfully once. This should avoid recurrent execution by error of
-grml-debootstrap (which might delete present data).
-
Customization
-------------
Set password of user root without prompting for it but set it to the given
argument. Usage example: password=AiTh5ahn
-Usage example for automatic installation:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Usage example for automatic installation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
debian2hd target=/dev/sda1 grub=/dev/sda mirror=ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/debian password=foobar
[NOTE]
.lenny release
================================================================================
-[1] Please notice that lenny is the current old-stable release within Debian.
+[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 6.0 (squeeze)
or Debian 7.0 (wheezy) instead.
================================================================================
[NOTE]
-.sid release
+.unstable and testing releases
================================================================================
-[2] Please notice that sid is Debian/unstable and due to its nature might not be
-always installable. What _might_ work instead is deploying a stable or testing
-release and upgrade it after installation finished.
+[2] Please notice that jessie (Debian/testing) and sid (Debian/unstable) might
+not be always installable due to their nature. What _might_ work instead is
+deploying a stable release and upgrade it after installation finished.
================================================================================
Bugs
-Current status:
+Current status (as of 2014-04-19):
- +----------------+-------------+-----------------+
- | Release / Tool | debootstrap | cdebootstrap |
- +----------------+-------------+-----------------+
- | Lenny | works [1] | works [1] |
- +----------------+-------------+-----------------+
- | Squeeze | works | works |
- +----------------+-------------+-----------------+
- | Wheezy | works | works |
- +----------------+-------------+-----------------+
- | Sid | works [2] | works [2] |
- +----------------+-------------+-----------------+
+ +----------------+-------------+
+ | Release / Tool | debootstrap |
+ +----------------+-------------+
+ | lenny | works [1] |
+ +----------------+-------------+
+ | squeeze | works |
+ +----------------+-------------+
+ | wheezy | works |
+ +----------------+-------------+
+ | jessie | works [2] |
+ +----------------+-------------+
+ | sid | works [2] |
+ +----------------+-------------+