On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Christopher Fisk wrote:
I'm looking for a utility that will allow me to install it onto a USB drive
and select a floppy, cd or dvd image to boot from.
I'd like for it to be able install directly to the USB, then you would use a
utility like linux dd or windows rawwrite to create images of floppy disks, or
just take an ISO file and boot from that.
Best setup for it would be to be able to just drop the images into a directory
on the USB drive, boot from the USB drive and get a selection list where you
select which image you want to boot.
Anyone know anything that'll do that?
As I expected, I was likely asking for a bit too much here =)
That said, I did find the Super Grub Disk, which allows you to install the
grub boot loader to a ThumbDrive, then using grub I can boot floppy
images.
I now have Ghost, Partition Magic, Spinrite, NTPasswd Reset and memtest
all on a single USB Thumb Drive.
I will be adding a Bart PE Environment as well as a knoppix install using
a regular filesystem (assuming I can fit both into a 2GB Flash).
Unfortunately, for me the Super Grub Disk doesn't work on my laptop, not
too big of an issue other than it added about 2 hours of troubleshooting
to my testing. Once I tested on a desktop here in the office everything
fell into place quickly.
Super Grub disk has a lot of MBR utilities built in, can repair broken
MBR's, edit them, etc.
Very nice program for techs.
Christopher Fisk
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