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Old 12-30-2004, 04:00 PM   #1
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Is it possible to burn more than 1 LiveCD distro on a CD and choose among them?


I think that I would like to carry along a CD that could give me, at boot time, the choice on which livecd distro would better fit:

- what I have to do

- the machine I'm up to now

Easy to grasp, I am a forensic and I sleep with Sleuth Penguin, or have to check firewalls and whisper softly to RedWall, or have Pentium I and 486. Or I have to hange architecture... Now, not everything, but a pinchful of the essentials can sit on the coaster (almost 800 Mb of data space).

Kinda "swiss knife" where the 4-5 distros of choice don't make up for small size or trendy portability, just variety of custom task-based OSs to load in RAM. And that's it.
I red a bit of the essentials, syslinux makes the compromise between the egg and the chicken and load the necessary but maybe this process is already exclusive of only one GNU/Linux system to load. Could it be possible to put something like a boot-loader on the CD to burn, just to mimik that phase? Or emulate, or whatever, sorry for the improperties.
So, if something is possble about it, what is it?

Thank you for reading

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Old 01-01-2005, 04:23 PM   #2
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i don't have all the answers to your question, but being that you haven't gotten any replies (and i know how that feels), i'm posting what little i do know, in the hopes that it might at least help you a little bit...

basically, YES, you can do this, i'm sure you can (though i'm not 100% sure on HOW)...

AFAIK, the (simple) way to get the "bootloader" using isolinux is basically by activating boot parameters... in other words, make it so that when the cd boots it gives you a boot prompt where you can type a parameter which will boot whatever kernel and system you want... to set this up, you need to tweak your isolinux.cfg file before you do the burn...

you could then, for example, make it so that typing "rescue" would boot your rescue distro, and giving "autopsy" would boot your forensic one, and typing "install" would start the installer for your favorite distro, etc...

you'd need to create a custom ISO with all the ramdisk images, kernels, and other stuff...

please let me know how this goes for you, i'm also very interested in learning to do this...

good luck, and by the way: WELCOME TO LQ!!!

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Old 01-01-2005, 04:36 PM   #3
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9045 - this is an article called "Multi-distro Linux Live CD"
http://www.xmlmania.com/index_articl...ux-Live-CD.php - as is this
I searched for live cd multi

Hope this helps. If it does, I think this would have enough call for a Linux Tutorial and/or a LQ Wiki entry.
 
Old 01-01-2005, 06:23 PM   #4
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hello xavierp... that "cd shell" prog linked-to on the page you posted a link to looks pretty cool... i'm trying to find a clone with a GPL license... meanwhile, i clicked on the "diskemu" link on the cd shell page... now, diskemu is dead, but there's some documentation on the site... here's a piece i think could benefit this thread:

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This will show you how to build a multiboot CD-Rom using isolinux and memdisk.
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#multimemdisk
 
Old 01-01-2005, 06:27 PM   #5
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Excellent stuff, win32sux - that's a good page. I must admit, I have never tried (or needed to try) doing a multiboot live cd, but occasionally the question does crop here.
 
Old 01-03-2005, 04:37 AM   #6
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Thank you for the feed-baCK, that's great!

I'm still recovering from the holidays' BUUUUM BUUUUM BUUUUM!!! Although in such a Lethe's Valley clouds, I am sure either me or one of you can do it and your suggestions will be used with love.
Fun or actual usefulness? I don't care, let's spread it

I should get out of "rehab" tomorrow... wish
 
  


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