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DrDeaf wrote: Whether it's a "phantom" or a "window" I am interested in understanding how the mechanics of this works.

If you want to know more about how Easy2Boot works
you can check out its homepage at

https://sites.google.com/a/rmprepusb.com/www/tutorials/72---easyboot---a-grubdos-multiboot-drive-that-is-easy-to-maintain/e2bv1

Hello Amigo!

amigo wrote:mount -o ro /dev/somedev /some/mountpoint

Thanks for your reply, I do understand that and I just wasn't clear in what I wrote, that what I wanted to see when I plugged in an external drive was the icon appear in the lower left hand corner and a right click would offer a mount read only option. I had hunted through the utilities for a way to no avail.
I do miss seeing the active path precede the cursor. Other little things too but it will just take time to become accustomed to it all. Typing in a bare command to see what the correct arguments are here, etc.
Thanks again for your kind reply!

Scooby wrote: If you want to know more about how Easy2Boot works
you can check out its homepage at

Thanks Scooby. When I was first thinking about the ISO thing I chose your Alt. 1 (Easy2Boot-grub4dos_v0.5.zip) since I was already using Grub4Dos to boot different versions from different partitions on a read only card and that had worked well. Your files worked well but I had to leave the media rw so that the sdx4 partition could be created. I did read about Easy2Boot back then and I noticed that he was working on a version to use Windows ISOs as well.
Thanks to your reply here, I went back and looked again. Now the new version is out and I saw much more than just Windows added.
Now, an ".isomem" extension is recognized to cause a non-contiguous ISO to be copied to RAM first. It will try to write the sdx4 phantom partition but perhaps it would boot anyway.
Yes!
The new version does work on a read only media!
It does not fail if it can not write the dbx4 partition!
Success, and a big "Thanks"

Thanks!
Should have read down deeper. Just in a hurry!

muggins wrote:DrDeaf wrote:

"3. Create a new ext2 partition and flag it as bootable."

That's from the grub2 part of the thread...in isobooter section, further below, it has:

1. Format the flash drive partition as FAT32. Flag it bootable.

DrDeaf wrote: Now, an ".isomem" extension is recognized to cause a non-contiguous ISO to be copied to RAM first.

That sounds great!

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I 'm trying to boot kali linux iso from my HDD, sda1.
No success till now, I use Grub4Dos.
What should I do?

Puppy with (Grub4Dos) is in sda4, kali-linux.iso in sda1 (/kali-linux.iso).

It is in the list of tested ISOs
http://www.easy2boot.com/add-payload-fi ... oad-files/

easy2boot is for USB drives.
And anyway it formats (when fmt.sh is run) the disk in which it will be installed.

yr easy multiboot please me.
Problems with links (yesterday try)

My multiboot (4distros) pendrive grub4Dos

@Pelo, can I have a look at your GRUB4DOS menu.lst. I want to see how it is booting your /mnt/sdb1/boxpup/... that you show in the pane below. Namely, are you booting the ISO or are you booting Frugal or both.

Thanks in advance

As requested:

Re-uploaded links in first post and did a quick 'n dirty upgrade of the pet-file

The pet is untested!

Now using latest stable easy2boot-1.55a

Scooby wrote:

Code: Select all

mkdosfs - F 32 -I /dev/sdxx

There is a typo, it should be

GRUB4Dos will add as many Puppies as you like
Once a Puppy is installed, you can add as many puppies as you like on the pendrive
tahrpup 64 added to Racy 5.3 and Racy 5.5
Demo francophone, but GUIs are english (YouTube)

GRUb4Dos est indéniablement le sytème le plus facile, c'est reconnu par nos devs compétents en la matière. N'éanmoins essayer ISObooter permettrait de faire vos retours. Il a l'avantage de booter des Puppies et des grosses Linux. sur la même clé.
PS : My God, it's an Englis topic..
Grub4Dos is te easier to use, that is recognized by our best devs used to USB practice. Nevertless try ISObooter, which allow big Linux to run beside our speedy Puppies.
explications par Esmourguit, supporter de la métode ISObooter, détaillée pas à pas en français