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π coreos-installer-iso-extract-minimal-iso π
okay bestie, gather round, because this one lives in the System Manager's Manual section 8 and it is so much less scary than it sounds. it's a little helper from the coreos-installer crew, and honestly? it's giving "tiny utility, big slay". π
β¨ NAME β¨
coreos-installer-iso-extract-minimal-iso β Extract a minimal ISO from a CoreOS live ISO image π¦
like. that's the whole job. you hand it a chonky CoreOS live ISO, it hands you back a minimal one. no cap. π
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
coreos-installer-iso-extract-minimal-iso [--output-rootfs]
[--rootfs-url] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] <ISO> [OUTPUT_ISO]
π DESCRIPTION π
Extract a minimal ISO from a CoreOS live ISO image β¨
that's it, that's the vibe. big ISO in, smol ISO out. iconic behavior, fr fr. π
π OPTIONS π
--output-rootfs <PATH>β okay so like, you want the rootfs image too? this extracts the rootfs image as well and drops it atPATH. go off, get both. π--rootfs-url <URL>β this one injects the rootfs URL karg into the minimal ISO. so you're telling the minimal ISO where to go find its rootfs later. it's like giving it a little map. πΊοΈβ¨-h,--helpβ Print help. when in doubt, ask for help, we love a queen who asks questions. π-V,--versionβ Print version. for when you need to know exactly which era of this tool you're in. β<ISO>β ISO image. this is your input, the big live ISO you're pulling from. required, bestie. no ISO, no minimal ISO. π[OUTPUT_ISO][default:-] β Minimal ISO output file. where your freshly squeezed minimal ISO lands. and the default is-, which is the classic "write it to standard output" move. so if you don't name a file, it just streams out at you. π
π VERSION π
v0.27.0
and that's the whole page, periodt. π this lil manual came to you from coreos-installer 0.27.0, and if you ever forget it, it's still sitting there quietly in the System Manager's Manual. now go extract something minimal and feel main character energy about it. π«ΆπΈβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- centos-stream 10: coreos-installer 0.27.0-2.el10 Β· ASL 2.0 and MIT and zlib
- centos-stream 9: coreos-installer 0.27.0-1.el9 Β· ASL 2.0 and MIT and zlib
- fedora 43: coreos-installer 0.27.0-1.fc43 Β· Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND (0BSD OR MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR BSL-1.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0 OR Zlib) AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
- fedora 44: coreos-installer 0.27.0-1.fc44 Β· Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND (0BSD OR MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR BSL-1.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0 OR Zlib) AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
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