On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:02:31AM -0400, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> I have a setup like that on a 16GB usb key.  I forget the name, but it was
> a pretty basic syslinux based boot, and it would scan a directory for ISOs
> and present them all as "boot options".  It "just worked" on the computers
> I tested it on, I used it mainly for debian-live and for
> debian-testing-netinstall images...
> 
> I can't remember the name now, but I'll try and remember when I get home to
> check the key...

That would be a very useful tool with which to become acquainted...

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) 
> <nas...@uottawa.ca>wrote:
> > THanks. I'd thought of the XXXLinux approaches, but have only used them
> > for individual images (and frankly used them but did not learn much how
> > they work). I should probably look further into it.
> >
> > However, by using archivemount I found the name of the initrd and kernel
> > for TinyCore-current and got it to boot with grub2. So far no joy with
> > gparted iso. The hint came from a page
> >
> > http://www.pendrivelinux.com/**boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-**
> > via-grub2-using-linux/<http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/>
> >
> > However, they show a grub.cfg file with lots of different setups for
> > different iso's, and it looks like they change with the flavour of the
> > month of each distro.
> >
> > If I figure out the "rules" I'll try to write them up and post a link
> > here. In the meantime, if anyone is interested in sharing the
> > investigation, contact me off list. This is obviously not top of the todo
> > list, but it struck me as a nice way to have iso's bootable, including the
> > boot-repair disks.
> >
> > Best, JN
> >
> > On 13-03-12 10:18 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> >
> >> 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSLINUX>
> >>         
> >> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/**index.php/The_Syslinux_Project<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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