Why is rufus not available under FreeBSD ?

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:25:41 +0100, Evilham wrote:
> On dt., gen. 28 2020, Manish Jain wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had to update my BIOS a couple of days back, and for that I 
> > needed a
> > bootable DOS USB pen drive. The only way to get this, I believe, 
> > is
> > Rufus - which is Open Source and is available under Linux.
> >
> > sysutils/unetbootin should be able to do the job, but simply 
> > does not work.
> >
> > I was wondering why Rufus is not available under FreeBSD. I 
> > think it is
> > one of the most useful applications I have ever come across.
> >
> > Thanks for any inputs.
> > Manish Jain
> 
> 
> This rufus?
> 
> https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#do-you-plan-to-port-rufus-to-linuxmac-ossome-other-os
> 
> I have used it on Windows at some point and yeah, it's handy; but 
> the author makes a point of it being OSS but heavily dependent on 
> Windows' APIs.
> So, I am really not aware of it being available for Linux either.

In this case, a documented procedure, or maybe a shellscript for
the ports collection would be a better solution than trying to
port something to FreeBSD that is heavily tied to "Windows" (it
probably won't work with wine, will it?). I know that it is
basically possible to create a filesystem image suitabe for
USB sticks that boots into DOS, as I have done this decades
ago. The assumption is: It worked decades ago, it should work
today. The reality is: Well... ;-)

You should not depend on complex solutions (and in this case,
only being available for a non-UNIX OS) in order to do something
that is, more or less, easy, and does _not require_ "Windows"
to be involved in any way. A native solution that works on
FreeBSD would be nice to have.



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