From f6538b40d6cc155625fbb4b9fca5dc92ff89f6ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Horea Christian Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 05:02:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Instructions and writing style update --- README.md | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4ca08ce..cc24bd3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,12 @@ # mkstage4 This is a Bash script to create stage 4 tarballs either for the running system, or a system at a specified mount point. -The script is a new edition of an earlier [mkstage4 script](https://github.com/gregf/bin/blob/master/mkstage4) by Greg Fitzgerald (unmaintained as of 2012) which is itself a revamped edition of the [original mkstage4](http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/projects/mkstage4) by Reto Glauser (unmaintaied as of 2009). - -More information on mkstage4 can be found on its own Chymeric Tutorials article: [mkstage4 - Stage 4 Tarballs Made Easy](http://tutorials.chymera.eu/blog/2014/05/18/mkstage4-stage4-tarballs-made-easy/). +The script was inspired by an earlier [mkstage4 script](https://github.com/gregf/bin/blob/master/mkstage4) by Greg Fitzgerald (unmaintained as of 2012) which itself was a revamped edition of the [original mkstage4](http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/projects/mkstage4) by Reto Glauser (unmaintaied as of 2009). -Chinese Introduction [中文说明](http://liuk.io/blog/gentoo-stage4) +More information on mkstage4 can be found on the following blogs, though instructions may be outdated compared to the current version, best documented by this `README` file: + +* English: [mkstage4 - Stage 4 Tarballs Made Easy](http://tutorials.chymera.eu/blog/2014/05/18/mkstage4-stage4-tarballs-made-easy/). +* Chinese: [中文说明](http://liuk.io/blog/gentoo-stage4) ## Installation @@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ Archive your current system (mounted at /): mkstage4 -s archive_name ``` -Archive system located at a custom mount point: +Archive a system located at a custom mount point: ```bash mkstage4 -t /custom/mount/point archive_name @@ -64,14 +65,15 @@ Tarballs created with mkstage4 can be extracted with: tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2 ``` -If you use -k option, extract src & modules separately +If you use the `-k` option, extract `src` and the modules separately ```bash tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2.kmod tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2.ksrc ``` -If you have install pbzip2, you can extract parallelly with: +If you have pbzip2 installed, you can extract using parallelization, with: + ```bash tar -I pbzip2 -xvf archive_name.tar.bz2 ```