Thanks Andrew about information, I'll take a look at ms-sys-free. On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Andrew Shadura <and...@shadura.me> wrote:
> On 19 December 2015 at 22:25, Lucas Castro <lucascastrobor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > * Package name : ms-sys > > Version : 0.0.28 > > Upstream Author : Henrik Carlqvist <he...@users.sourceforge.net> > > * URL : http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/ > > * License : GPL-2+ > > Programming Lang: C > > Description : Program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records > > > > The program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk > > or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy > > any system files, only the boot record is written. > > > > It's usual in day-to-day of sysadmin the OS installation, > > and with this package become easier to write boot record > > for MS OSes on flashs and so create MS OS bootable flash. > > I'll maintain this package by myself. > > I'm quite certain this software can't enter Debian main, and I'm > unsure about non-free, as in includes dumps of boot records apparently > copyrighted by Microsoft, and even if there wasn't this they don't > come with the complete source code. > > You may try packaging ms-sys-free instead, but I don't know how useful > that package would be. > > -- > Cheers, > Andrew > -- contatos: Celular: ( 99 ) 99143-5954 - Vivo skype: lucasd3castro
