X-Git-Url: https://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=grml-debootstrap.8.txt;h=32bfca90557aed6e05e7f1ea1fd2757635e2f7da;hp=7fe365ce5db45417e160d7a82ff5dda2274b4514;hb=7827bce99e0be17690494ec747f0b7875fc77e32;hpb=1fcd407ef06d457126c089c53b40a0af4a0acf2b diff --git a/grml-debootstrap.8.txt b/grml-debootstrap.8.txt index 7fe365c..32bfca9 100644 --- a/grml-debootstrap.8.txt +++ b/grml-debootstrap.8.txt @@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ image:images/screenshot.png[Screenshot] Introduction ------------ -grml-debootstrap is a wrapper suite around debootstrap (and cdebootstrap if you +grml-debootstrap is a wrapper suite around debootstrap (and cdebootstrap and mmdebstrap if you 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 grml-debootstrap. If invoked without any configuration modifications or command -line options a dialog based frontend will be available to control some basic +line options a dialog based front end will be available to control some basic configuration options. A plain and base Debian system will be installed on the given device, directory @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Options and environment variables *--backportrepos*:: - Enable Debian's Backports repository (http://backports.debian.org/) via the + Enable Debian's Backports repository via the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list configuration file. This provides the option to install Debian packages from Debian's backports repository. @@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ Options and environment variables *-r*, *--release* _releasename_:: Specify release of new Debian system. Supported releases names: lenny, - squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch and sid. Corresponding with configuration - variable RELEASE. Default release: stretch + squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster, bullseye and sid. Corresponding with configuration + variable RELEASE. Default release: buster *--remove-configs*:: @@ -269,37 +269,43 @@ Usage examples grml-debootstrap --target /dev/sda1 --grub /dev/sda -Install default Debian release (stretch) on /dev/sda1 and install bootmanager -Grub in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda1 as system partition. +Install default Debian release (buster) on /dev/sda1 and install bootmanager +GRUB in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda1 as system partition. + + grml-debootstrap --release stretch --target /dev/sda1 --grub /dev/sda --hostname foobar --password changeme + +Install Debian release stretch on /dev/sda1 and install bootmanager +GRUB in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda1 as system partition. +Set hostname to 'foobar' and password for user root to 'changeme'. grml-debootstrap --target /dev/sda6 --grub /dev/sda --release sid -Install Debian unstable/sid on /dev/sda6, install bootmanager Grub in MBR +Install Debian unstable/sid on /dev/sda6, install bootmanager GRUB in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda6 as system partition. mount /dev/sda1 /data/chroot grml-debootstrap --target /data/chroot -Install default Debian release (stretch) in directory /data/chroot (without +Install default Debian release (buster) in directory /data/chroot (without any bootloader). grml-debootstrap --target /dev/sda3 --grub /dev/sda --mirror ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/debian -Install default Debian release (stretch) on /dev/sda3 and install bootmanager -Grub in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda3 as system partition. +Install default Debian release (buster) 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://deb.debian.org/debian) one. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 grml-debootstrap --vmfile --vmsize 3G --target /mnt/sda1/qemu.img -Install default debian release (stretch) in a Virtual Machine file with -3GB disk size (including Grub as bootmanager in MBR of the virtual disk file): +Install default debian release (buster) in a Virtual Machine file with +3GB disk size (including GRUB as bootmanager in MBR of the virtual disk file): mount -o loop /mnt/sda6/debian-CD-1.iso /mnt/iso grml-debootstrap --target /dev/sda1 --grub /dev/sda --iso file:/mnt/iso/debian/ Install Debian on /dev/sda1 using the loopback mounted Debian-ISO -for the base-system and install bootmanager Grub in MBR (master boot record) of +for the base-system and install bootmanager GRUB in MBR (master boot record) of /dev/sda and use /dev/sda1 as system partition. Please notice, that the chroot system requires network access for all packages which are not part of the ISO. @@ -368,8 +374,8 @@ Where do you want to install grub to? Usage example: grub=/dev/sda release=... -Specify release of new Debian system. Defaults to Debian stretch. Supported -releases: lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch and sid. Usage example: release=sid +Specify release of new Debian system. Defaults to Debian buster. Supported +releases: lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster, bullseye and sid. Usage example: release=stretch mirror=... @@ -403,18 +409,27 @@ Supported Releases include::releasetable.txt[] [NOTE] -.lenny/squeeze release +.lenny/squeeze/wheezy release ================================================================================ -[1] Please notice that lenny and squeeze are unsupported releases within Debian nowadays. +[1] Please notice that releases like lenny, squeeze and wheezy are unsupported releases within Debian nowadays. grml-debootstrap can handle the releases but you really should not use them -anymore unless you really know what you are doing. Choose the current Debian -stable version instead. +anymore unless you really know what you are doing. +Choose the current Debian stable version instead. +See https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases for the list of supported releases. -Notice that you need to specify a mirror providing the lenny/squeeze releases, the +Notice that you need to specify a mirror providing the lenny and squeeze releases, the default (http://deb.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/squeeze mirror. +Older releases might also fail to install when running on top of recent kernel versions, +throwing segfaults during debootstrap. This can be identified by the following messages inside kernel log (check with 'dmesg'): + + dpkg[...] vsyscall attempted with vsyscall=none ip:[...] + dpkg[...]: segfault at [...] + +To work around this issue boot your system with the kernel boot option 'vsyscall=emulate'. + 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. @@ -447,12 +462,12 @@ deploying a stable release and upgrade it after installation finished. Bugs ---- -Probably. Please send bugreports to Michael Prokop . +Please report bugs towards https://github.com/grml/grml-debootstrap/issues See also -------- -debootstrap (8), cdebootstrap (1). +debootstrap (8), cdebootstrap (1), mmdebstrap(1). Author ------