Hello

I have been trying out the Live lightweight operating systems on my old laptop.

To cut down on disc wastage, is it possible to burn more than one live lightweight operating system to a DVD-r with or without a menu and still use it as a live DVD?

If so,i would be grateful for any advice. Maybe there's a tutorial?


Thanks

It's possible but not simple and if you are not familiar with Linux, might be more than you want to do. A general outline would be:

1.Download each iso file
2.Create a mount point to mount the iso file
3.loop mount the iso file
4.Create another directory to which you can copy the contents of the iso once loop mounted, example: mkdir /mnt/iso
4.Copy the extracted files to the /mnt/iso directory. Make sure none of the files/folders are duplicates as the second instance will overwrite the first.
5.Unmount the first iso and you can mount the next iso to the same mount point
6.Repeat the process of copying the mounted folders/files to /mnt/iso
7.Create a boot menu file, menu.lst or grub.conf with Grub Legacy or grub.cfg with Grub2, in either instance you would need them in the /boot/grub directory which you also need to create.
8.With Grub Legacy, make sure you have the stage2_eltorito file in /boot/grub, with Grub2 it should be eltorito.img
9.Once you have copied all the folders/files to the /mnt/iso directory and copied the necessary Grub files there, use the mkisofs or genisoimage command to create the CD/DVD.

A second option is if you are using Ubuntu and major derivatives is to just copy the iso files to /mnt/iso, create a boot directory with a grub sub-directory and manually create a grub.cfg file to directly boot the iso files. You then need to run the mkisofs or genisoimage commands on the /mnt/iso directory. Once the iso is created, use k3b or whatever burning software to burn to a DVD.

That's a general outline using Grub to boot. You can also use isolinux/syslinux as a bootloader which will be a similar process. If you are interested, post back although it would be easier to use a flash drive.

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Thanks a lot for your help Vancek, it's much appreciated.

You're welcome. Good luck.

You're welcome. Good luck.