1 febootstrap - Bootstrapping tool for creating supermin appliances
2 by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com)
3 http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap
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6 febootstrap is a tool for building supermin appliances. These are
7 tiny appliances [similar to virtual machines], usually around 100KB in
8 size, which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a
9 second when you need to boot one of them.
11 A complete description is in the febootstrap(8) man page.
13 IMPORTANT NOTE FOR USERS OF FEBOOTSTRAP 2.x:
14 febootstrap 3.x is a complete rewrite. febootstrap 2.x could only
15 build Fedora distributions. This version can build many varieties
16 of Linux distros. 3.x only builds supermin appliances, it does not
17 build chroots. 3.x does not build cross-distro, cross-release or
18 cross-architecture systems. If you want febootstrap 2.x, please use
19 the 'febootstrap-2.x' branch from the git repository.
26 ocaml findlib ("ocamlfind" program)
29 - This is just used to generate the manpage.
36 - Only if you need to test-boot appliances.
41 - These are part of e2fsprogs.
44 - This is part of module-init-tools. Note that Debian does NOT
45 package this, you have to build it yourself (or copy the file
46 from a Fedora machine which also works ...)
50 (but you will need a package manager for your Linux distro)
57 Building and installing
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67 Send feedback to libguestfs@redhat.com. You can file bugs in
68 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ (under "Fedora", "febootstrap")