Comment 1 for bug 553963

I just pushed the first draft at my personal non-root branch: lp:~rsalveti/project-rootstock/no-root

The implementation is not that stable yet, and I'm also facing an annoying qemu segmentation fault problem (bug 604872) when running the second stage, but when everything goes well I can successfully use the generated rootfs at my beagleboard :-)

How to test the no-root feature (will remove the bashism later, bug 575854):
bash ./rootstock --fqdn beagleboard --login ubuntu --password temppwd --imagesize 512M --seed ubuntu-minimal --dist lucid --serial ttyS2 --components "main universe multiverse" --no-root

Also note that you need to install fuseext2, genext2fs and fakeroot before testing it :-)