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.
