X-Git-Url: https://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=grml-debootstrap.8.txt;h=4882d2b321d447c80556309fb25be568a0589296;hp=2f4c1976723a2248de42086e890535eab7f3fd53;hb=070010f3b89fedea00ca8da305efeaf5ee5692b4;hpb=a459d66c019ce8d1df4acaf0c0fe14e73f87343d diff --git a/grml-debootstrap.8.txt b/grml-debootstrap.8.txt index 2f4c197..4882d2b 100644 --- a/grml-debootstrap.8.txt +++ b/grml-debootstrap.8.txt @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ 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. @@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ Options and environment variables are executed at the end of the chroot procedure. Default directory: /etc/debootstrap/chroot-scripts/ +*--contrib*:: + + Enable the 'contrib' repository in COMPONENTS. By default only + the 'main' repository is enabled. + *-d*, *--confdir* _path_:: Place of configuration files for debootstrap, defaults to /etc/debootstrap. @@ -78,6 +83,21 @@ Options and environment variables Execute in very verbose way. Useful for debugging possible problems with grml-debootstrap or identify what's actually executed. +*--defaultinterfaces*:: + + Install a default /etc/network/interfaces file (enabling DHCP for eth0) + instead of taking over config from host system. + +*--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. @@ -144,6 +164,11 @@ Options and environment variables need to provide regular boot, e.g. a system which provides ISOs for booting via GRUB using grml-rescueboot. +*--non-free*:: + + Enable the 'non-free' repository in COMPONENTS. By default only + the 'main' repository is enabled. + *--nopackages*:: Skip installation of packages defined in /etc/debootstrap/packages. @@ -172,11 +197,13 @@ Options and environment variables command line might be visible in the process list and the shell history. It's meant for automatic installation only. -*-r*, *--release* _releasename_:: +*--post-scripts* _directory_:: - Specify release of new Debian system. Supported releases names: lenny, - squeeze, wheezy, jessie (note: requires a recent version of debootstrap) - and sid. Corresponding with configuration variable RELEASE. + Execute scripts from specified directory after executing the chroot script. + This allows customisation of the system after the chroot has been set up. + The environment variable $MNTPOINT is available inside the scripts for + direct access of the chroot. + Default directory: /etc/debootstrap/post-scripts/ *--pre-scripts* _directory_:: @@ -186,12 +213,16 @@ Options and environment variables scripts for direct access of the chroot. Default directory: /etc/debootstrap/pre-scripts/ -*--scripts* _directory_:: +*-r*, *--release* _releasename_:: - Execute scripts from specified directory. This allows customisation of - the system after the chroot has been set up. The environment variable - $MNTPOINT is available inside the scripts for direct access of the chroot. - Default directory: /etc/debootstrap/scripts/ + Specify release of new Debian system. Supported releases names: lenny, + squeeze, wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster, bullseye and sid. Corresponding with configuration + variable RELEASE. Default release: buster + +*--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_:: @@ -212,9 +243,10 @@ Options and environment variables *--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. + Set up a Virtual Machine using a regular file instead of installing to a + partition/block device or directory. This allows deployment of a Virtual + Machine. The options needs to be combined with the --target option + ('qemu-img create -f raw ...' is executed on the specified target). Usage example: --vmfile --target /mnt/sda1/qemu.img *--vmsize* _size_:: @@ -237,37 +269,43 @@ Usage examples grml-debootstrap --target /dev/sda1 --grub /dev/sda -Install default Debian release (jessie) 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 (jessie) 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 (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. +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 (jessie) 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. @@ -336,13 +374,13 @@ Where do you want to install grub to? Usage example: grub=/dev/sda release=... -Specify release of new Debian system. Defaults to Debian jessie. Supported -releases: lenny, squeeze, wheezy, jessie 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=... 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://deb.debian.org/debian). Usage example: mirror=ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/debian password=... @@ -371,17 +409,30 @@ Supported Releases include::releasetable.txt[] [NOTE] -.lenny release +.lenny/squeeze/wheezy release ================================================================================ -[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 -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. +[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. +See https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases for the list of supported releases. + +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 mirror. +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. 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: