Multi Booting with Linux

Multi Booting with Linux

I have had smooth transition to running only Linux in both computers.

This is what I did soon after.

I use the computers sparingly NOW with my tablet in hand doing usual stuff.

However, annual update of my computers takes around November, each year since Linux guys/girls take a well deserved long holiday.

This the time, Microsoft cronies snoop your computers and introduce malaware updates.

This happened to me while (now totally disbanded) updating Windows operating system (I dished them out fully) as a forerunner for updating Linux.

I usually have a USB stick with either Linux OPs running or Knoppix live running.

Another stick with my boot loader (GRUB) for rescue (never happened over the last 15 years) missions.

The third is a portable hard drive with all my favorite distributions running.

I used UNetBootIn for this purpose and lately used the French Multi Booting DVD for the same purpose.

Now I have fully migrated to Debian, I had few problems with MultiBooting.

Debian does not support UNetBootIn but Peppermint (which I dished out few days ago, because it cannot configure my BIG TV screen) does.

With some fiddling I found Multiboot Utility from SourceForge for Debian.

It is almost like UNetBootIn.

Its advantage is, it can be booted in a Linux partition (not necessarily in a fat partition which MultiSystem requires) and any unnecessary distribution can be weeded out (Uninstalled) after installation.

MultiSystem does not support Uninstalling and some distributions does not support squashfs files.

Similarly Multiboot in Debian cannot support DVDs with lot of software (Emmabuntus Ubuntu version NOT the Debian version is a culprit, in a live session without the DVD placed in the disk drive).

Elsewhere, I have written lot about MultiSystem and NetBootIn this piece is brief.

This is an update to say Debian has a revised version of MultiBoot.