diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/geteltorito/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/geteltorito/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9e936548050
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/geteltorito/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+{ stdenv, perl, ronn, fetchFromGitHub }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "geteltorito-${version}";
+  version = "0.6";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "Profpatsch";
+      repo = "geteltorito";
+      rev = version;
+      sha256 = "05bcn3pam29xmsz1ykyqsdbkz8y23kcrvvhm987f65wd1g741f75";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ perl ronn ];
+
+  unpackCmd = "";
+  dontBuild = true;
+  configurePhase = "";
+  installPhase = ''
+    # reformat README to ronn markdown
+    cat > README.new <<EOF
+    geteltorito -- ${meta.description}
+    ===========
+
+    ## SYNOPSIS
+
+    EOF
+
+    # skip the first two lines
+    # -e reformat function call
+    # -e reformat example
+    # -e make everything else (that is no code) that contains `: ` a list item
+    tail -n +3 README | sed \
+        -e 's/^\(call:\s*\)\(getelt.*\)$/\1`\2`/' \
+        -e 's/^\(example:\s*\)\(getelt.*\)$/\1 `\2`/' \
+        -e 's/^\(.*: \)/- \1/g' \
+           >> README.new
+    mkdir -p $out/man/man1
+    ronn --roff README.new --pipe > $out/man/man1/geteltorito.1
+    install -vD geteltorito $out/bin/geteltorito
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Extract the initial/default boot image from a CD image if existent";
+    homepage = "https://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/ftp/noarch/geteltorito/";
+    maintainer = [ maintainers.profpatsch ];
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d1c61aa2d66..b10ef482128 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1769,6 +1769,8 @@ in
 
   gengetopt = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/gengetopt { };
 
+  geteltorito = callPackage ../tools/misc/geteltorito { };
+
   getmail = callPackage ../tools/networking/getmail { };
 
   getopt = callPackage ../tools/misc/getopt { };