Not The Final Update on USB MultiBooting-Note on MX (4.1) Linux
This is written in in the same style as “not the 9 O' Clock News”, where Mr. Bean started his career (Mr. Aitkinson).
In Linux one should never say final update.
It is ever, improving like in Total Quality Management (TQM), Linux developers, especially the, Debian Developers, never say it is the end of the line, but a new beginning.
Debian is bit too, high for me and I used Mepis and AntiX instead, which are Debian derivatives.
Debian has gone well beyond my old computer, I could not test Debian, Multiboot utility myself.
I downloaded, MX 4.1 today (New name for AntiX), tested its Live USB utility which is very easy graphic utility to make a Live USB.
It is easy as a cheese cake, and I need not elaborate how to make one.
If you are not sure read my other blog posts.
Steps are,
1. Download MX 4.1 (torrent or direct).
2. It is a live CD.
3. Run Live session.
4. Click Live USB (right click will get you the applications and it is in accessories).
5. Insert a USB.
6. Format using Gparted (which is in system when right click at desktop).
7. Locate the live iso and click OK.
It is better to use Ext 3 file system instead of FAT 32.
I would say why?
I had a Microchip which I could not erase the proprietary boot menu hidden (SONY was the culprit and I paid twice the price of a non proprietary Microchip) in the file system.
I tried it for nearly one month formatting, even with Gparted but it won’t let me erase the 1.8 MB booting code.
With Gparted in MX 4.1, I finally erased everything and made a Live Microchip mounted on a USB mounting Key.
MX 4.1 has UnetBootIn utility which makes a live USB, which was my favorite but it makes only one Live System.
USB Multibooting of Debian lets you remove or add any distribution to your USB, as long as it has the capacity.
French (Ubuntu distribution only) MultiSystem (it could not erase the SONY code) does not allow you to remove.
I am pretty sure they will do that in due course, if somebody translate (My French is bad) this blog piece into French and post it.
Thanks a lot Guys and Girls of Mepis and MX.
