Re: Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick
Le lundi, 10 décembre 2012 18.00:03, Holger Wansing a écrit :
> But we already mention Windows tools in the guide, which are also not
> part of Debian, for example for partitioning.
> I would vote for including plop too.
Which ones, specifically ? As far as I read chapter 3.5, we just advise users
to "repartition", without saying how. The other Windows executables we advise
to use are in Debian: loadlin and win32-loader.
Furthermore, I think "plop" is a widely different beast in that context: it's
a bootloader, which runs on the bare metal and could do lots of things to
anything it boots. Furthermore, I can't find any indication that it is free
software nor links to the source, which is apparently assembler. Closer
examination of the license [0] indicates that it is non-free as per "The
programs may not be sold".
Earlier I was lightly against pointing to it for "not built by Debian"
reasons: I was worried about us advising users to use free software that we
would not be ensuring trust for. Now, given that I have realised that plop i
non-released-source non-free software, I'm really firmly against pointing to
it, for the risks inherently carried by installing a non-free assembler
bootloader on bare metal.
Cheers,
OdyX
[0] http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/licence.html
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