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.