Bug#831981: ITP: mkusb - Tool to make boot drives.

[Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@ubuntu.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@ubuntu.com>


* Package name    : mkusb
  Version         : 10.6.6
  Upstream Author : Simon Quigley
* URL or Web page : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
* License         : GPL3
  Description     : Tool to make boot drives.

The mkusb tool was developed to make it simpler and safer to create boot
drives with the method to flash or clone an iso image or a compressed
image file. It is using dd under the hood. The target is a mass storage
device, often but not always a USB drive, sometimes an internal drive or
an eSATA drive. Cloning an iso file to a mass storage device makes a
boot drive, provided it is a hybrid iso file, post-processed with
isohybrid. See man isohybrid. This method with dd has a high success
rate. It is particularly good for pre-release testing and new releases,
when the standard tools like Unetbootin might not be ready (if the
configuration of the booting has been changed since the previous
release). mkusb can also create persistent live systems for Ubuntu
family iso files with a modified 'grub-n-iso' method.