On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 06:36:14PM -0400, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
> I've an old 40G 2.5" drive from a dead laptop that is in a USB case.
>
> My thought was to use it for holding a bunch of .iso images of
> liveCDs. However, I've had no joy trying to set up booting of these.
>
> Multisystem "sort of" worked once. Seems glitchy, and attached to
> different systems had different behaviour.
>
> Gujin (following some suggested approaches on net) did not fire up.
>
> Grub seems needs an interface to the isos, and instructions I found
> seemed to suggest I could simply specify the isos in the grub.cfg,
> which failed when I tried. (The recipe I tried was not clear if it
> wanted grub or grub2, and I suspect therein lies some of the
> trouble.)
>
> Has anyone done something like this. I'd be happy to get some
> advice, get it working and write a 1-pager. I've rather put the isos
> on an external drive than burn them to cd/dvd.
Peter Anvin's SYSLINUX or ISO LINUX would be the way I'd go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSLINUX
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project
I'm already using pxelinux on my network to boot a number of distributions.
> Cheers, JN
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