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What is the easiest way to create acusb stick with multiple bootable ISP files?

I know of xboot and sardu but they are pc only. I'm looking for a Linux solution and would like to hear from users who gave actually created a bootable multi-iso USB stick.

Look for a thread that is about isoboot

rcrsn51 http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67235

I have in front of me 5 USB and all of them have several iso
and all of them book fast and was supereasy to set up
following his instructions

Thanks nooby!!

I will follow the instructions and see how I do. Looks very promising!

I use Hiren's.

3rd last post.

Has the files needed and some examples >> menus etc.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=507622

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" I couldn't get the Falcon to boot off my 16 gig USB,
and strangely Puppy for that matter...
after a reformat.

I had the previous Falcon boot before reformatting,
but the Vista-Win7 ERD refused to fire up....
it always came up with a fault.

Shinobar's Grub 4 Dos wouldn't boot me either,
and quite honestly...this was a first time fail.

GParted said all was OK...boot and LBA ticked...
but it was a dud.

Tried different usb ports...front and back,
on different computers.

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So as a last resort I used Hiren's USB apps to get me running.

I had used it last year before I tried Shinobar's Grub4DosConfig.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51697

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk

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2012...much improved Hiren's USB How To

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/usb-booting/

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Chris.

For those who have not yet heard of it I want to recommend SARDU. Sardu is a fantastic utility for creating and testing multi-boot iso on usb/hd/dvd/cd/iso. It is gui based and needs only a little configuration to work on wine.

After installing sardu on wine run winecfg, then select Drives tab and add a new drive. You need to insert a usb storage device and mount it, or use an already created mount dir, such as sdb1 sdc1 or 2. After adding a new drive click Path - Browse to select the mount point folder, usually in /mnt , eg /mnt/sdb1, select that folder and it will associate with the new drive 'E' in wine. Start up sardu.exe and click search usb, there will be an error box ignore it, it will pop up occasionally but makes no difference to successful operation. Then in the file menu select change image folder, and select the folder which contains the ISOs you want to use. Sardu will auto detect the ISOs and will add a tick in those boxes which are predefined, to show availabe iso. It has predefined linuxes, including puppy, also various windows distros, and tools for techies like anitvirus and clone etc etc. Sardu also has an amazingly fast iso downl oader built in. When yu selected all the iso you wish to include simply click on the usb drive icon on the gui and it will write to the usb/hd/ , or click on the cd image to create a bootable iso. Sardu also includes qemu for testing any iso. This all works great in puppy linux on wine. Here is the website.

Of course it needs hacking to accomodate multiple puppy distros - should be easy for you master scriptors out there! Come on!!

http://www.sarducd.it/

I have Win Vista on a HP/Compaq and I needed NeoGrub
to boot that one so maybe worth to look into.

If nothing else works then why not go to this url
and try it out
https://neosmart.net/wiki/easybcd/neogrub/

I am a noob so I needed a lot of assistense though
for to know how one does it. I joined their forum
and asked and asked until the know how hit home
in my poor brain.

I use it daily now on the DeskTop. First thing in the morning
booting into
But I fail to retail how one set it up so if the do some changes
then I will me on my own again and that would be a disaster

I dread that day. I would have to use my small netbooks instead.[/url]

Install Easy2Boot and simply toss the freshly downloaded ISO to it and go! It doesn't get any cleaner than this.

I have installed Fatdog64 on my usb stick using many methods( yummi, universal installer, fatdogs own installer, even have used dd, never had problem in booting.
I downloaded easy2boot and installed it on my usb.
I have successfully booted both Fatdog64-630 and precise puppy from it.

Also I have made e2b usb from both windows7 and my fatdog64. Both times it worked and boots fine.
I even didn't have to worry about .mnu file as it says in the link, I just placed my ISOs in mainmenu folder. I have also tested them by placing in Linux folder.
I didn't encounter any prob.

Looks like all of this solutions are made to be used from a Windows Operating System.

Is there at least one that would work properly in Puppy or Linux generally?

The only reason not to use SARDU is if you don't want Wine on your distro!

Ich sag di' mal, nur probieren! Sicherlich Du wilst zufrieden sein!

I don't know when was the last time you used wine, but it is really great at the moment!

RSH wrote:Looks like all of this solutions are made to be used from a Windows Operating System.

Is there at least one that would work properly in Puppy or Linux generally?

if you've already got a puppy running off a stick,your own AFI utility?

(which i really must thank you for. one of my installations was giving me problems so installed a new one with AFI, which took maybe a minute. works great, though admittedly was done to HD, not usb. would that make any difference? what's to stop someone from just right-clicking iso after iso and selecting AFI from the pop up menu? anyway, if i haven't yet personally thanked you for it, thanks.)

if you've already got a puppy running off a stick,your own AFI utility?

Ha, yes this is out there, but it is based on a script by stu90.

I have already installed all of my (LazY) Puppies at USB Flash Drive by frugal installation. Just understand this here to have the ISO files at USB Flash Drive instead of extracting the files from ISO and doing a frugal installation.

The only reason not to use SARDU is if you don't want Wine on your distro!

Ich sag di' mal, nur probieren! Sicherlich Du wilst zufrieden sein!

I don't know when was the last time you used wine, but it is really great at the moment!

I don't mind using Wine, since I have a Wine SFS including Gecko and the Corel Draw Suite 8. The Wine 1.3.13 (its version) SFS is used frequently also for some Portable Applications.

Maybe I'll try SARDU, if it could do it the way to have the ISO files at USB Flash Drive instead of doing a frugal installation.

RSH wrote:Looks like all of this solutions are made to be used from a Windows Operating System.

Is there at least one that would work properly in Puppy or Linux generally?

HI RSH,
The easy2boot I posted runs nicely in my Fatdog64, try that. Read the process to use in linux first on it's site. It's quite easy.
Thanks
Edit: also look at http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/114 for easy2boot in Linux tutorial.

!Corel 8! WoW I need to get that one and update the wine!

RSH wrote:Looks like all of this solutions are made to be used from a Windows Operating System. Is there at least one that would work properly in Puppy or Linux generally?

See nooby's first post above.

rcrsn51 wrote:

RSH wrote: ... Is there at least one that would work properly in Puppy or Linux generally?

There are 2 that are "active" in PUPPYLAND recently. Both accomplish the same objectives, yet they do it differntly.

In Puppy, boot ISOs directly without dissecting or creating media

• Puppy Easy2Boot
• Puppy ISObooter

Both work for creating USB/HDD to find and boot the ISOs it can see. SARDU offers a even better approach, if it can be easily used in setup in a PUP to create the bootable ISO that it provides. Reason: The bootable ISO can allow the system to boot the ISOs if finds on the CD/DVD disc.

Hope this helps

gcmartin:

Notice that you have Dogpile in your sig...they killed that long ago

I find >> ixquick gives much better results.

https://ixquick.com/

" ixquick protects your privacy!
The only search engine that does not record your IP address. "

Chris.

Hi,

put a small vfat first partition on the usb stick using gparted, then made it bootable while still in gparted.

Further partitions as required.

Edit menu.lst.

Regards Tony.