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 slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________