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Custom Multi-Boot USB Stick?

By Amichai Rotman at 01/03/2010 - 08:45

Hi All,

I'd like to create a custom bootable USB stick:

I have a few ISO files of tools I'd like to take along with me. Thing is
their sizes are very small (30-70 MB) and I don't want to burn each to a
CD-R, cheap as they are...

My dream solution would be to create a script that will check every day or
so for the latest ISO on the site and downloads it, then creates one big
bootable ISO file with all the different tools in it with a nice menu.

Then, when I have to go to my customer, I just dump that ISO to my USB
stick, knowing that it contains all the latest versions...

I'd settle for a way to do the first part manually. i just want to know how
do I add an ISO of a separate tool to an existing USB stick containing, say,
an Ubuntu Live system...

Thanks!

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Amichai Rotman

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Re: Custom Multi-Boot USB Stick?

By Jay Mistry at 01/12/2010 - 15:45

This article has detailed instructions on creating a multi-distro boot
CD/USB disk,
(you would need to do the auto-update part manually for each Linux
version you want updated)

<a href="http://www.linuxforu.com/how-to/create-multiboot-discs/" title="http://www.linuxforu.com/how-to/create-multiboot-discs/">http://www.linuxforu.com/how-to/create-multiboot-discs/</a>

HTH

Jay

Re: Custom Multi-Boot USB Stick?

By Karl F. Larsen at 01/12/2010 - 16:40

Thanks Jay, I put the whole of create-multiboot-disks onto a
Linux text editor and put a copy on my 2 GB USB stick. I will
play with it later.

73 Karl

Re: Custom Multi-Boot USB Stick?

By a_puzzeled_newb... at 01/06/2010 - 23:01

hello please check out an episode of hak5 that was done recently where there
was such a tool made.

--ben

revision3.com/hak5
<a href="http://www.hak5.org" title="www.hak5.org">www.hak5.org</a>

Re: Custom Multi-Boot USB Stick?

By Amichai Rotman at 01/08/2010 - 05:05

Hey Ben,

Can you please tell me the exact name of the tool or the episode number?

I wasn't able to find it...

Thanks!

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Amichai Rotman

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Re: Custom Multi-Boot USB Stick?

By Clint Tinsley at 01/08/2010 - 10:48

number?

Epsiode 602 August 26, 2009. Grub2 was used to build the multiboot on
the USB drive.

--Clint

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 05:01, a_puzzeled_newbie(^_^);

hello please check out an episode of hak5 that was done recently where
there was such a tool made.

--ben

revision3.com/hak5
<a href="http://www.hak5.org" title="www.hak5.org">www.hak5.org</a>

Re: Custom Multi-Boot USB Stick?

By Amichai Rotman at 01/12/2010 - 06:38

Thanks Clint!

That put me in the right track, but I am still not quite there:
I would like to use different ISO files, and I can't figure out what to put
in for each of the individual entries, i.e.: One of the ISOs I'd like to add
is the Ultimate Boot CD. I copied the ISO to the /boot/iso/ directory, but I
don't know what I need to write in the grub.cfg file to load it as a
loopback device.

I need the same thing for floppy image (The All In One Boot
Floppy<http://rescup.winbuilder.net/bootdisk/>
).

I have a few other ISOs and I might want to use others in the future.

Thanks!

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Amichai Rotman

UIN#: 6401746
Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]
Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]

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Re: Custom Multi-Boot USB Stick?

By Clint Tinsley at 01/12/2010 - 08:52

Sorry for the top post here but the editor on this email service
doesn't markup replies properly.

Check out my blog post here as I provide several links on using Grub2
for multi-booting iso's from a USB Drive.
<a href="http://www.boiselug.org/node/66" title="http://www.boiselug.org/node/66">http://www.boiselug.org/node/66</a>

<ubuntu- ... at lists dot ubuntu.com>

Thanks Clint!

That put me in the right track, but I am still not quite there:

I would like to use different ISO files, and I can't figure out what to
put in for each of the individual entries, i.e.: One of the ISOs I'd
like to add is the Ultimate Boot CD. I copied the ISO to the /boot/iso/
directory, but I don't know what I need to write in the grub.cfg file
to load it as a loopback device. 

I need the same thing for floppy image (The All In One Boot Floppy).

I have a few other ISOs and I might want to use others in the future.

Thanks!

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Amichai Rotman

UIN#: 6401746
Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]
Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]

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number?

Epsiode 602 August 26, 2009.  Grub2 was used to build the multiboot on
the USB drive.

--Clint

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 05:01, a_puzzeled_newbie(^_^);

hello please check out an episode of hak5 that was done recently where
there was such a tool made.

--ben

revision3.com/hak5
<a href="http://www.hak5.org" title="www.hak5.org">www.hak5.org</a>