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Distribution: Ubuntu 9.04 uppgraded (unforturnally), will eventually switch to Arch
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Multiple Live distors, Dos + Linux on single CD
Hi!
I have been tasked to test a lot of harddrives using the manufactures diagnostics tool. This tool/program is run in a LiveCD environment using different versions of Dos. Now, these tools only use about 2-5 mb of space on the disk, it feels quite the waste.
That is why I want to have the following on a single CD/DVD:
1. Diagnostics tool for Seagate/Maxtor drives
2. Diagnostics tool for Western Digital driver
3. Diagnostics tool for Samsung Spinpoint drives
4. Diagnostics tool for Hitachi/IBM Deskstar drives
5. Memtest86+
6. Damn Small Linux (or perhaps Slax...)
7. Recovery Is Possible
Is there a (easy or not) way to do this?
Oh I almost forgot, I am running Crunch Bang Linux (a very lightweight Ubuntu (Jaunty) based distro) on my laptop right now.
Distribution: Debian 5 - Slackware 13.1 - Arch - Some others linuxes/*BSDs through KVM and Xen
Posts: 329
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Perhaps you could check out SystemRescueCD, it bundles both Linux/FreeDOS so you can choose either one at startup. And it has other tools, like memtest.
Distribution: Ubuntu 9.04 uppgraded (unforturnally), will eventually switch to Arch
Posts: 3
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Thank you for your rapid reply, I have found a live CD that does somewhat what I want, but the tools is not up to date, but check it out Hiren Rescue CD, I will also check out your recommendations.
Now then, I have downloaded syslinux bootloader to put on the CD, is it possible to burn the iso files to the disc like this, samsung.iso/Westerndigital.iso/ibm.iso and boot off them from syslinux?
A collaboration would be quite awesome, since I am still quite new to configuring bootloaders and make them work.
Oh, I just thought of something, since all diagnostics tools (that I have tried) use dos, perhaps the way to go is with FreeDOS and launch the diagnostics from there. There might be one problem though (or maybe not, I am not all that in to the different versions of DOS), one of the diagnostics tools use Caldera DOS (spelling?).
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