On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:07:12PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:29:46AM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The problem with miboot is that there are 200 or so m68k instructions in > > > the > > > boot sector, which have not been changed since over 10 years probably, and > > > probably nobody at appple even remembers them, and thus we are not > > > shipping > > > miboot even in non-free, while at the same time distributing it from > > > people.debian.org. > > > > IIUC, Debian is already distributing Microsoft boot sector code > > in the ms-sys package. > > > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/ms-sys > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=694012&group_id=59200&atid=490228 > > Ah, interesting, but i wonder if it is code or just data, and what licence it > comes under, will have a look.
Notice that this may (or not) be a reimplemented boot record though, in which case this is ok. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
