Linux
Multi System USB booting CD
If you have nothing else to do today or on a day without much work;
I have some work for you.
1. Just buy a few USB sticks or a large sized one or two USB sticks.
2. Download your favorite Linux images, any number of
your choices.
3. Download Linux MultiSystem CD image and write it on
a CD, by torrent.
4. Boot it up Live and launch the MultiSystem Utility.
5. Stick a USB stick to one of the ports in your system.
6. Run the program and install any number of Linux
distribution to be booted to the USB stick (the would depend on the sizes of the distributions and the capacity of the USB stick.)
7. Restart the computer, remove the CD and run the
distribution from the Flash Drive (the USB stick).
Up till now this program could be obtained (installed)
from Pendrive Linux site and could be run on Ubuntu or Ubuntuderivative.
Not on Debian and Debian has a different utility.
See my alternative blog posts here.
Guess what I did?
I installed MultiSystem distribution on the USB stick to begin with and three other distributions that can boot Netbooks, including Puppy.
This is handy since Netbooks do not have CD/DVD drives.
I installed Multisystem utility on the Peppermint Linux that was installed on the Netbook.
Repeated the above procedures on a Standard SD card instead of on a Flash Drive.
I stick it in to an appropriate port, and it is there ready to RUN on RAM in an emergency.
I included few Rescue distributions in the lot.
I must say, I had few hiccups!
Suse Linux and Fedora Linux do not cohabit well with other distributions (they are not Ubuntu based).
There is no problem, if one is using only one distribution in the USB stick, but its defeats the MultiSystem very intentions.
Having as many distributions as one may wish.
NetBootiIn and YUMI do not perform, as well as the MutiSystem Utility.
It is number one for me but it is Ubuntu based and not Universal for all the Linux distributions, as at present.
Having it on a Live CD is the simple solution.
Not on Debian and Debian has a different utility.
See my alternative blog posts here.
Guess what I did?
I installed MultiSystem distribution on the USB stick to begin with and three other distributions that can boot Netbooks, including Puppy.
This is handy since Netbooks do not have CD/DVD drives.
I installed Multisystem utility on the Peppermint Linux that was installed on the Netbook.
Repeated the above procedures on a Standard SD card instead of on a Flash Drive.
I stick it in to an appropriate port, and it is there ready to RUN on RAM in an emergency.
I included few Rescue distributions in the lot.
I must say, I had few hiccups!
Suse Linux and Fedora Linux do not cohabit well with other distributions (they are not Ubuntu based).
There is no problem, if one is using only one distribution in the USB stick, but its defeats the MultiSystem very intentions.
Having as many distributions as one may wish.
NetBootiIn and YUMI do not perform, as well as the MutiSystem Utility.
It is number one for me but it is Ubuntu based and not Universal for all the Linux distributions, as at present.
Having it on a Live CD is the simple solution.
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