http://jserv.sayya.org/kernel/uml/create-uml-rootfs#!/bin/sh BASE_DIR=`pwd` # --- Modified as you need --- TARGET_DIR=$BASE_DIR/ext2fs ETC_SAMPLE=etc_sample.tar.bz2 ROOTFS_FILE=ubuntu-root # Create rootfs (400Mb) echo "Creating root file system..." rm -f $ROOTFS_FILE dd if=/dev/zero of=$ROOTFS_FILE bs=1024K count=400 if [ ! -f $ROOTFS_FILE ]; then echo "Error: creation of image file fails." exit fi yes y | mkfs.ext2 $ROOTFS_FILE mkdir -p $TARGET_DIR mount -o loop $ROOTFS_FILE $TARGET_DIR # Make use of Debian's debootstrap tool to construct Ubuntu Dapper (6.10) base echo "Invoking debootstrap..." debootstrap --arch i386 dapper \ $TARGET_DIR \ http://archive.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu # Extract sample configure files if [ -f $ETC_SAMPLE ]; then cd $TARGET_DIR tar jxvf $ETC_SAMPLE cd $BASE_DIR fi # mknod for ubd0 (specific to UML) if [ -d $TARGET_DIR/dev ]; then cd $TARGET_DIR/dev mknod --mode=660 ubd0 b 98 0 chown root:disk ubd0 cd $BASE_DIR else echo "Error: debootstrap fails." exit fi # Finish sync umount ext2fs echo "Done" echo "Please assign the rootfs: " $ROOTFS_FILE |