From 86ad5dc1f589d78053eeaa7054dd5a4e5d606422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helmut Grohne Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 22:55:37 +0100 Subject: improve documentation wording and content Reported-by: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues --- debvm-create | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'debvm-create') diff --git a/debvm-create b/debvm-create index 5fc8950..65b3c54 100755 --- a/debvm-create +++ b/debvm-create @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ B [B<-a> I] [B<-h> I] [B<-k> I] [B =head1 DESCRIPTION B is essentially a thin wrapper around B for creating a raw ext4 filesystem image for booting with B. -The purpose of these images primarily is testing the different releases and architectures. +The purpose of these images primarily is testing the different releases and architectures without access to a physical machine of that architecture. Beyond essential packages, the image will contain B, an init system and a suitable kernel package. -Notably absent is a bootloader and partition table. +Notably absent is a bootloader and a partition table. In order to boot such an image, one is supposed to extract the kernel and initrd from the image and pass it to a suitable bootloader. No user account is created and root can login without specifying a password. @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ By default, it is written to B. =item B<-p> I Request additional packages to be installed into the virtual machine image. -This option can be specified multiple times and packages can be separated with comma. +This option can be specified multiple times and packages can be separated by a comma. Package recommendations are not honoured. =item B<-r> I -- cgit v1.2.3