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Various ways to have multiple bootable Linuxes on a USB stick.
See also:
- Making a USB stick bootable
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Linux distribution booting from a USB drive which has a Windows-viewable partition
- TODO - try Super Grub2 Disk
- TODO - try https://www.lakora.us/multicd/
- MultiBootUSB
- UNetbootin
- untested: https://web.archive.org/*/www.menoyot.com/center/linuxmultibootusb.html
- https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive
failed: MultiSystem ∞
http://liveusb.info/ (.fre)
- http://liveusb.info/multisystem/multisystem.tar.bz2
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See also https://www.pendrivelinux.com/multiboot-create-a-multiboot-usb-from-linux/
I had to hack the script to comment-out the if [ ! "$SUDO_USER" ]
line. That's Ubuntu-specific.
dir=/tmp/multisystem/multisystem \mkdir -p $dir \mv * $dir \cd $dir \su ./install.sh
argh, it's too Ubuntu-specific, and won't work for me. Fuck it.
failed: Via GRUB2 ∞
(GRUB)
props: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/
\wget -c "releases.ubuntu.com/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso" -O ubuntu.iso
Or rename your existing ISO to ubuntu.iso
and copy it to the USB device
\wget -c "ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/10/linuxmint-10-gnome-cd-i386.iso" -O linuxmint10.iso
Or rename your existing ISO to linuxmint10.iso
and copy it to the USB device
\wget -c "downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dban/dban/dban-2.2.6/dban-2.2.6_i586.iso?r=&ts=1292340298&use_mirror=surfnet" -O dban.iso
Or rename your existing ISO to dban.iso
and copy it to the USB device
\wget -c "distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/tinycore-current.iso" -O tinycore.iso
Or rename your exisitng ISO to tinycore.iso
and copy it to your USB device
\wget memtest.org/download/4.10/memtest86+-4.10.zip \unzip memtest86+-4.10.zip \cp memtest86+-4.10.bin memtest86+.bin
Adding an Unlisted ISO: To try ISO Files that are not yet listed, use the existing menuentry examples in /boot/grub/grub.cfg
and append any options normally found in the distributions syslinux.cfg
file on the "append" line to the "linux" line of the menu entry.