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Since it's super useful.

Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <[email protected]>
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For example, a goal is to change [Anaconda](https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/)
to use this.

### Using `bootc install to-disk --via-loopback`

Because every `bootc` system comes with an opinionated default installation
process, you can create a raw disk image (that can e.g. be booted via virtualization)
via e.g.:

```bash
truncate -s 10G exampleos.raw
podman run --rm --privileged --pid=host --security-opt label=type:unconfined_t -v .:/output <yourimage> bootc install to-disk --generic-image --via-loopback /output/myimage.raw
```

Notice that we use `--generic-image` for this use case.

### Using `bootc install to-filesystem --replace=alongside`

This is a variant of `install to-filesystem`, which maximizes convenience for using
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