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I mean, i can go to a friend's house, and boot the usb, and choose from sysrescuecd if i want to help him with something or a desktop distribution to watch a film, or something it is not possible in its computer, or just to show him some different distributions :-)
The usb is 32gb !! I found it very cheap in ebay :-) I had one very old of 1gb, so it was time to have something bigger.
It has not arrived, so it will take a pair of weeks more or less. But when I saw 32gb, I quickly though about multiboot live cd :-) so I began to google it.
I was thinking systemrescuecd, basic, ubuntu 9.10, it really goes fast, debian and mandriva.
OK
since you got time before the usb gets there...
we'll make this thread into a multiboot usb tutorial?
cool?
I'll break my answers down into sections:
1) Prepping USB
formating & partitioning usb
setting bootflag
2) Booting-
syslinux
grub
extlinux
bootmanagers
3) Breakdown of good usb distro's by family (debian, ubuntu, slack/slax, puppy, etc)
common boot cheatcodes of each
mono-persistent distro's (those that save to the partition they boot from)
bi-persistent distro's (those that require a seperate partition to save to)
bugs and difficulties with each
which is the best for usb for me/you?
4) Roll your Own; remastering a distro to meet your needs and wants
which distro's are easy to remaster
using homemade scripts to automate the process
tricks and hints
5) Making the USB
making alot of menus and sub-menus
grub menu.lst
syslinux & extlinux
text boot menu or graphical boot menu
tools I use to construct multidistro cd/dvd/usb kits
OK
well
not sure what medium we could use, as we both need to access our "wiki" but not let others edit it,
Maybe we could start a sourceforge project thats just a wiki?
we could use my forum too, and maybe I can set it so only you/I have access?
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