Hi All!
I finally got around to trying one of the tools for setting several
distros / CDs / DVDs on one USB drive. MultiBootUSB seems to work
fairly well, but has some setup gotchas:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/multibootusb/
If you're sick of carrying around 8 different flash drives, try it -
once you get it working, it's pretty cool. Here are some things I'd
like to pass on:
-If you use Ubuntu 12.04 (it's my desktop distro of choice) , you won't
be able to install the .DEB file because it needs Gabbas3, which is not
in the repositories. You can easily get it from the Launchpad
repository with: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemh/gambas3 .
-Once you install and run the (mostly) GUI tool, know that you are
expected to add one distro to the given USB device at a time. Also, for
some reason, it didn't like the auto mount-point. As root, I unmounted
the USB drive, mounted it in a subdirectory of /media that I made, and
then ran the tool with gbr3 /usr/bin/multibootusb.gambas .
-Finally, you will need to tell it to install syslinux on the USB drive
and then edit the syslinux.cfg file for everything to work. I added my
own set of directives to the beginning of multibootusb/syslinux.cfg :
UI /syslinux/vesamenu.c32
default Ubuntu-SecureRemix-12_10-64bit <label of distro to start by default>
PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 200
ONTIMEOUT Ubuntu-SecureRemix-12_10-64bit
Finally, after all of that, it works. And it's pretty cool.
Good luck,
-Jeff
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