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Added more information about installing a UML instance from installation media.
Added error handling for when the debootstrap commands fail.
Added directories to the PATH to assist the various apt-get invocations.
Fixed expansion of AS_USER.
Used an explicit path for chroot invocations.
Added /sbin to the path.
Introduced a path adjustment so that chroot can be found by debootstrap.
Used an explicit path for debootstrap.
Replaced /etc/lsb-release usage with lsb_release invocations.
Finished an incomplete sentence.
Moved marker file deletion inside the appropriate section.
Added marker files indicating usage of mounted devices so that such devices are
Removed superfluous and non-functioning mount-related commands from the
Added UML console access details.
Added more configuration-related details and some UML hints.
Added tag rel-0-2 for changeset 23d8f07c9537
Added a table describing the different modes of operation. rel-0-2
Enabled filesystem options that may well be needed when booting from
Added read/write mount options, apparently needed when booting Ubuntu 11.10
Added some User Mode Linux initrd notes.
Added initrd options and made the console use the standard input and output of
Added support for booting from initrd files extracted from ISO installer images
Added support for making blank images.
Fixed/improved the documentation; added a link in the "to do" list to a
Prevent attempts to remove the mount directory and move any original /dev
Propagate environment variables to the user-makesources script.
Added a help text.
Fixed "here document" usage in the scripts, adding more occurrences of such output.
Made it possible to make a UML image from a root install.
Added the --net option to the usage message.
Added a script which controls access to the UML image.
Integrated the UML functionality better with the package root functionality.
Added a device-mounting option for conventional chroot installations.
Added bind mounts when user-do is run in root mode.
Fixed network addressing and added a "to do" list.
Added networking support.
Fixed UML device initialisation and inittab manipulation.
Renamed various scripts, added "as root" support for traditional installations.
Added --root options to the setup and enter scripts, invoking the underlying
Introduced common fakechroot options.
Split various initialisation steps into separate files.
Added keyring installation.
Fixed mounted ISO image location reference.
Ensure that the gnupg package is installed.
Added --use-system-libs flags.
Updated the documentation and dependencies for the fixed fakechroot version,
Attempted to improve the user-setup script.
Added notes related to recent cross-distribution experiences.
Fixed a syntax error when testing for --help in user-setup.
Added tag rel-0-1 for changeset c42c5a534f78
Changed terminology, avoiding the term "repository" when it could be confused rel-0-1
Added notes about library path and python-support configuration.
Fixed references to /etc/default (not /etc/defaults).
Fixed the package installation directories again.
Fixed package installation directories.
Added user-path.
Added some documentation.
Added automatic distribution name retrieval.
Added usage and help texts.
Renamed user-apt to user-apt-get.
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