For this Howto to be as quick as possible, we'll assume that you have a MandrakeLinux? 10.0 system with properly working urpmi sources.

Get Umigumi

First, make sure that CVS is installed, else, type:

    urpmi cvs

then, chose a directory (it will be ''~/cvs'' here) and get the cvs module:

    cd ~
    mkdir cvs
    cd cvs
    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@openbrick.org/cvsroot login
    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@openbrick.org/cvsroot -z6 co umigumi
    cd umigumi

Get other software

To build uncompressed systems, you don't need additional software.

You'll need at squashfs-tools to build compressed filesystem image.

And if you want to produce Live CD's, you'll need mklivecd (0.57 or higher. At the time of the writing, 0.57 hasn't been released, but the CVS is working perfectly, and we provide a RPM package)

run Umigumi

Insert you USB key or USB card-reader loaded with a flash card, and type:

    umigumi -ba vpn