cdebootstrap-static(1) [debian man page]
CDEBOOTSTRAP(1) User Commands CDEBOOTSTRAP(1) NAME
cdebootstrap - Bootstrap a Debian system SYNOPSIS
cdebootstrap [OPTION]... SUITE TARGET [MIRROR] DESCRIPTION
cdebootstrap builds a basic Debian system of SUITE (e.g. etch, lenny, sid) into TARGET using the source specified in MIRROR. It supports http://, ftp://, file:// and ssh:// URL and defaults to http://ftp.debian.org/debian. The ssh:// scheme uses cat on the remote host to access the files. You have to setup a master connection and configure ssh to use it or use a key for authentication. No user interaction is possible. The complete log is saved as /var/log/bootstrap.log in the new system. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. --allow-unauthenticated Ignore if packages can't be authenticated. This ignores the unavailability of Release.gpg, missing keyrings, broken signatures and missing gpgv executable. -a, --arch=ARCH Set the target architecture. -c, --configdir=DIR Set the config directory. --debug Enable debug output. -d, --download-only Download packages, but don't perform installation. --exclude=A,B,C Drop packages from the installation list. This only works if the package is pulled in explicitely, either via priority or explicit definition in the config. It won't exclude packages which are pulled in via dependencies. --foreign Use second stage installer. This does the unpack phase of the bootstraping only. The second stage installer will be available as /sbin/cdebootstrap-foreign and /sbin/init. -f, --flavour=FLAVOUR Select the flavour to use (see FLAVOURS below). -k, --keyring=KEYRING Use given keyring. -H, --helperdir=DIR Set the helper directory. --include=A,B,C Install extra packages. -q, --quiet Be quiet. Only warnings and errors are shown. --suite-config -v, --verbose Be verbose. All command output is shown. -h, --help Display this help and exit. --version Output version information and exit. FLAVOURS
Flavours available with default configuration: build Installs essential, apt and build-essential. Suitable for sbuild and pbuilder usage. All rc.d operations are disabled by a policy- rc.d script (cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d package). minimal Installs essential and apt. All rc.d operations are disabled by a policy-rc.d script (cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d package). standard Installs required and important priority packages. This is the default flavour. cdebootstrap CDEBOOTSTRAP(1)
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DEBOOTSTRAP(8) Debian GNU/Linux manual DEBOOTSTRAP(8) NAME
debootstrap - Bootstrap a basic Debian system SYNOPSIS
debootstrap [OPTION...] SUITE TARGET [MIRROR [SCRIPT]] debootstrap [OPTION...] --second-stage DESCRIPTION
debootstrap bootstraps a basic Debian system of SUITE into TARGET from MIRROR by running SCRIPT. MIRROR can be an http:// URL, a file:/// URL, or an ssh:/// URL. The SUITE may be a release code name (eg, sid, jessie, wheezy) or a symbolic name (eg, unstable, testing, stable, oldstable) Notice that file:/ URLs are translated to file:/// (correct scheme as described in RFC1738 for local filenames), and file:// will not work. ssh://USER@HOST/PATH URLs are retrieved using scp; use of ssh-agent or similar is strongly recommended. Debootstrap can be used to install Debian in a system without using an installation disk but can also be used to run a different Debian flavor in a chroot environment. This way you can create a full (minimal) Debian installation which can be used for testing purposes (see the EXAMPLES section). If you are looking for a chroot system to build packages please take a look at pbuilder. OPTIONS
--arch=ARCH Set the target architecture (use if dpkg isn't installed). See also --foreign. --include=alpha,beta Comma separated list of packages which will be added to download and extract lists. --exclude=alpha,beta Comma separated list of packages which will be removed from download and extract lists. WARNING: you can and probably will exclude essential packages, be careful using this option. --components=alpha,beta Use packages from the listed components of the archive. --no-resolve-deps By default, debootstrap will attempt to automatically resolve any missing dependencies, warning if any are found. Note that this is not a complete dependency resolve in the sense of dpkg or apt, and that it is far better to specify the entire base system than rely on this option. With this option set, this behaviour is disabled. --variant=minbase|buildd|fakechroot|scratchbox Name of the bootstrap script variant to use. Currently, the variants supported are minbase, which only includes essential packages and apt; buildd, which installs the build-essential packages into TARGET; and fakechroot, which installs the packages without root privileges. Finally there is variant scratchbox, which is for creating targets for scratchbox usage. The default, with no --vari- ant=X argument, is to create a base Debian installation in TARGET. --keyring=KEYRING Override the default keyring for the distribution being bootstrapped, and use KEYRING to check signatures of retrieved Release files. --no-check-gpg Disables checking gpg signatures of retrieved Release files. --verbose Produce more info about downloading. --print-debs Print the packages to be installed, and exit. Note that a TARGET directory must be specified so debootstrap can download Packages files to determine which packages should be installed, and to resolve dependencies. The TARGET directory will be deleted unless --keep-debootstrap-dir is specified. --download-only Download packages, but don't perform installation. --foreign Do the initial unpack phase of bootstrapping only, for example if the target architecture does not match the host architecture. A copy of debootstrap sufficient for completing the bootstrap process will be installed as /debootstrap/debootstrap in the target filesystem. You can run it with the --second-stage option to complete the bootstrapping process. --second-stage Complete the bootstrapping process. Other arguments are generally not needed. --second-stage-target=DIR Run second stage in a subdirectory instead of root. (can be used to create a foreign chroot) (requires --second-stage) --keep-debootstrap-dir Don't delete the /debootstrap directory in the target after completing the installation. --unpack-tarball=FILE Acquire .debs from tarball FILE instead of downloading via http. --make-tarball=FILE Instead of bootstrapping, make a tarball (written to FILE) of the downloaded packages. The resulting tarball may be passed to a later --unpack-tarball. --debian-installer Used for internal purposes by the debian-installer --extractor=TYPE Override automatic .deb extractor selection to TYPE. Supported extractors are: dpkg-deb and ar. --no-check-certificate Do not check certificate against certificate authorities --certificate=FILE Use the client certificate stored in file (PEM) --private-key=FILE Read the private key from file EXAMPLES
To setup a wheezy system: debootstrap wheezy ./wheezy-chroot http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian debootstrap wheezy ./wheezy-chroot file:///LOCAL_MIRROR/debian Full process to create a complete Debian installation of sid (unstable) in a chroot: main # debootstrap sid sid-root http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ [ ... watch it download the whole system ] main # echo "proc sid-root/proc proc defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab main # mount proc sid-root/proc -t proc main # echo "sysfs sid-root/sys sysfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab main # mount sysfs sid-root/sys -t sysfs main # cp /etc/hosts sid-root/etc/hosts main # chroot sid-root /bin/bash AUTHOR
debootstrap was written by Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>. This manpage was written by Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org>. Debian Project 2001-04-27 DEBOOTSTRAP(8)