-yum -c ${vref}/etc/yum.conf --installroot=${vdir} -y clean all
-echo "--------STARTING tar'ing PlanetLab-Bootstrap.tar.bz2: $(date)"
-tar -cpjf PlanetLab-Bootstrap.tar.bz2 -C ${vref} .
-echo "--------FINISHED tar'ing PlanetLab-Bootstrap.tar.bz2: $(date)"
+yum -c ${vref}/etc/mkfedora-yum.conf --installroot=${vref} -y clean all
+
+bootstrapfs_plain=bootstrapfs-${nodefamily}.tar
+bootstrapfs_name=bootstrapfs-${nodefamily}.tar.bz2
+echo -n "* tar $bootstrapfs_name s=$(date +%H-%M-%S)"
+tar -cpf $bootstrapfs_plain -C ${vref} .
+echo -n " m=$(date +%H-%M-%S) "
+bzip2 --compress --stdout $bootstrapfs_plain > $bootstrapfs_name
+echo " e=$(date +%H-%M-%S) "