Today I was looking for utilities to create bootable USB drives. In WNPP
I discovered quite a few ITP/RFPs for these types of tools:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?915458
multibootusb -- A cross platform utility to create multi boot live Linux
on a removable USB disk
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?576359
usb-creator-to-be-renamed -- startup disk creator#718301
fedora-liveusb-creator -- Cross-platform tool for installing live
operating systems on to USB flash drives
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?732647
mintstick -- USB stick formatter and ISO image writer
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?831981
mkusb - Tool to make boot drives.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718301
fedora-liveusb-creator -- Cross-platform tool for installing live
operating systems on to USB flash drives (now MediaWriter)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?869875
woeusb -- Bootable USB Storage Creator for Windows Installer/PE
And already in debian there is debootstick and some other efi/iso tools.
Some of these are old and may not be supported/useful any more.
Some of these may be distro/OS specific,
But hopefully there is one that is being maintained and is generic
enough to replace what the others do so we don't need to maintain all
these things.
Submitters/participants, please reply to your bugs (trim cc list
accordingly) and let us know what's going on with these.
--
Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org