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authorkaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk <kaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk>2005-05-25 22:22:44 +0000
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- pygrub/README provides information on packages needed to compile pygrub - support reiserfs {2,3} filesystem - dynamically build modules based on which filesystem libraries the system has (proposed by Jeremy) - pump up pygrub to version 0.2 Signed-off-by: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com>
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-Compiling this needs RPM e2fsprogs-devel installed. \ No newline at end of file
+pygrub is a grub-like bootloader for xen. This tool is to use to boot domU images.
+
+To compile pygrub, you will need the following packages installed:
+
+1) Libraries of ext2fs, which is the following package (depend on your Linux distribution):
+ - e2fslibs-dev on Debian based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Linspire, Libranet, Xandros, etc...)
+ - e2fsprogs-devel on RedHat, Fedora Core
+ - libext2fs2-devel on Mandriva/Mandrake
+ - e2fsprogs on Gentoo
+
+2) Libraries of reiserfs, which is the following package (depend on your Linux distribution):
+ - libreiserfs-dev on Debian based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Xandros, Libranet, Xandros, etc...)
+ - progsreiserfs-devel on RedHat
+ - progreiserfs on Gentoo
+