userinstall

Graph

(0) -60 tip
Initialise /etc/mtab if not present. default tip
Copy more recently built kernels into the current directory.
Added notes about Linux kernel installation and root password initialisation.
Added /dev/pts to the bind-mounted filesystems.
Fixed the Linux build script name.
Insist on explicit mirrors for multistrapped systems.
Attempt to provide suitable repository definitions for multistrapped systems.
Handled archive downloading and unpacking failures.
Removed the superfluous MAC address from the network options.
Made the installation media optional in the mounted filesystems.
Added notes on filesystem resizing and uml-net invocation.
Added a note about rootstrap.
Added root-mode UML image instructions.
Added a root device option and tidied up the code.
Added handling of any failure to mount the image.
Used the full path to mkfs.ext3.
Added some error handling around potential permission problems.
Updated the default configuration.
Added tentative support for multistrap usage.
Added the "no filesystem" use-case to the documentation.
Added a "no filesystem" option to the script for situations where the root file
Added error handling when setting up network tunnelling.
Updated and added copyright and licensing information.
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.
(0) -60 tip