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)