Final Update on U.S.B. Multi -Booting
This is the Final Update on preparing a Multibooting USB.
YUMI
In spite of warning, by Peppermint, I installed YUMI Version One (using Debian Installer) on Ubuntu 14.04.
With lot of fiddling, I managed to Install few distributions on a 8 GiB USB.
It installed everything including wrting the boot menu.
But USB failed to boot.
This was written in Gambas programming language.
I did not investigate the reasons and what were the missing files.
MultibootingUSB (the follow up of YUMI)
Then from sourceforge I got version 7 of multibooting USB and installed it using Debian Installer and both attempts at launching it on Ubuntu 14.04 and Pinguy 14.04 failed due possibly to a missing dependency.
Sudo and root does not work and program crashes and disappears, never to be activated again.
In addition Ubuntu does not have a utility to Uninstall a package installed from Debian Installer.
This is a very dicey situation.
MultiSysytem from France works nicely on Peppermint, Pinguy and and Ubuntu.
It does not let you delete a distribution.
This is something available on Debian MultibootUSB
I did not test it on Debian (I was bit lazy and Debian on 7 version is bit high and advanced for me) and it is probably a result of the distribution variability.
I have a request from both developer teams.
1. MultiSystem should add the functionality to delete a distribution/s.
2. MultibootUSB should work on the dependency and the distribution variation and specially the root and sudo administration.
It should release the source code for other distribution workers to tinker the missing files.
3. UnetBootIn should work on both of the above issues and produce the third viable option (multibooting and deletion of distributions) which is available for KDE desktops unlike MultiSystem and MultibootUSB.
I want both packages to succeed in the long run.
Both are pretty good.
Mind you we only had UnetBootIn, my favorite for different reasons.
It can be used on KDE desktops.
KDE guys and girls still cannot figure out and produce (gnome the winner) a good USB MultiBoot Utility.
