= Deprecation Notice =

Note that !RootStock has been deprecated and is no longer maintained, and it's generally recommended that people start with an ubuntu-core image and tailor it to their needs.  If one really needs to build images from the ground up, using live-build is the alternative (which is what Ubuntu uses to generate its own live and preinstalled images, including the ubuntu-core rootfs)

= RootStock =

The !RootStock project aims to create a command line and graphical set of tools to create a fully configured tarball or VM image of an Ubuntu rootfs from scratch, so that you can extract it to a root device on e.g. armel systems.

Creating a rootfs can help you testing Ubuntu in devices that are not official supported. It also helps you if you want to create smaller images, or just different flavors of Ubuntu (with Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc).

Project in Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/project-rootstock

== News ==

 * July 30, 2010 - [[https://edge.launchpad.net/project-rootstock/+announcement/6416|RootStock 0.1.99.4 released]]


== Download ==

!RootStock is quite tight with Ubuntu, so we recommend you to use Ubuntu Jaunty, Karmic or Lucid.

=== Official distro package ===

Just install rootstock for cli or rootstock-gtk if you want to use the GUI (not well supported).
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$ sudo apt-get install rootstock
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=== Development branch ===

If you want to use a not yet released version, or want to contribute to !RootStock, just pull from the official branch:
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$ bzr branch lp:project-rootstock
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=== PPA ===

For older Ubuntu versions you can also use !RootStock in order to be able to use the latest features.

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PPA
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== Documentation ==

 * [[ARM/RootfsFromScratch|Creating rootfs from scratch]]
 * [[ARM/RootStock/RunNative|RootStock in a native environment (compatible ARM device)]]
 * [[http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu|elinux.org BeagleBoard Ubuntu wiki page]]
 * [[ARM/RootStock/KnownIssues|Known Issues]]

== Bugs and Problems ==

If you run into any problem, please report it at https://bugs.launchpad.net/project-rootstock/+filebug .

For questions please contact "ogra" or "rsalveti" in #ubuntu-arm on irc.freenode.net.