[TriLUG] Multiboot CD Question

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Fri Mar 19 08:46:03 EDT 2010


I'll check into it.

I am using VirtualBox to build the CDs as well as test them.

As for the end result, I am testing physical systems so I need the CD. 
Some do not boot USB.

On 3/18/10 6:04 PM, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Roy Vestal<rvestal at trilug.org>  wrote:
>    
>> I have built 2 different CentOS live CD's for testing in our lab. As both
>> CD's are 150MB uncompressed, I can easily fit them on one CD. I'm trying to
>> figure out how to make a single multiboot CD from 2 seperate CentOS
>> LiveCD's.
>>      
> Googling for "usb multiboot linux" without the quotes got me this:
>
> http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Create_a_multiboot_CD_(or_USB_flash_drive)
>
> Which looks like it's most of what you need. Let us know if that
> works? Two suggestions from personal experience: (1) booting from USB
> may be marginally more effort, but is worth that effort to make the
> bootable USB image and learn to use it. (2) VirtualBox is a lovely
> thing for testing stuff like this, but use whatever flavor of
> virtualization that you find most tasty.
>
> Cheers,
>    




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