For the latest version of febootstrap, see the downloads directory.
$ febootstrap fedora-10 ./f10 $ ls -l ./f10/ total 1096 drwxr-xr-x 2 rjones rjones 4096 2009-03-19 18:38 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 rjones rjones 4096 2008-09-06 11:13 boot drwxr-xr-x 4 rjones rjones 4096 2008-09-06 11:13 dev drwxr-xr-x 14 rjones rjones 4096 2009-03-19 18:38 etc -rw-rw-r-- 1 rjones rjones 231038 2009-03-19 18:38 fakeroot.log [&c .. note the owner/perms will be correct in the initrd.img] $ febootstrap-to-initramfs ./f10 > initrd.img $ febootstrap --groupinstall="Mail Server" fedora-10 ./mailserver $ febootstrap-to-initramfs ./mailserver > initrd.img
febootstrap is a tool for creating a Fedora boot filesystem. You can think of it as the Fedora equivalent of debootstrap. Like debootstrap, febootstrap doesn't need to be run as root.
febootstrap comes with tools to create initrd.img
(initramfs) images directly. There are also tools to minimize the
size of the generated system by removing unnecessary files.
There is now a git repository for developers. Thanks to Jim Meyering for setting this up.
git clone git://git.annexia.org/git/febootstrap.git
This software is distibuted under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2 or above.
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