mkbimage1
Manual page for $id: mkbimage,v 1.10 2002/01/01 15:24:27 tlaronde exp $
Usage
mkbimage [-hVF]
[-t
TYPE]
[-d
DIRECTORY]
[-s
FS_TYPE]
-f
TAR_FILE
Overview
Make a Bootable IMAGE using GRUB as a bootloader
Options
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Actions:
-dDIRECTORY [default CWD]
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Directory where the boot.image and the partition subdirectories are/will be created
-f TAR_FILE
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Name of the tar file containing the filesystem to install. Can be a pure tar file [.tar] or a compressed tar file [.tar.gz|.tar.bz2]
-s FS_TYPE
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Type of the file system to create on the virtual disk. Choices are: ext2, minix or msdos [default is ext2]
-t TYPE
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Type of the image to create. Choices are '1.20', '1.44', '1.60', '1.68', '1.74', '2.88' or 'hd' [default is hd]
-F
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Force to set the set_dpt flag (unnecessary 99% of the time! Be careful!
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Informations:
-Dturn Debugging on [xtrace]-hdisplay this Help and exit-Vdisplay Version information and exit
History
- Debian 4.0 (Etch): the text shown here
- Debian 3.1 (Sarge)