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/
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://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
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