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I'm seeing lots of How-To's on installing live-CD versions of operating systems on USB keys. Is there a way to multi-boot?

High capacity (8GB, 16GB) USB keys are becoming quite inexpensive. There is room on these to install quite a number of live-CD type Operating Systems and bootable utilities. Is there a way to set this sort of thing up as multi-boot so that one could select which OS/Program booted? I'm imagining Kubuntu, BartPE, Spinrite, Gparted, etc on one major utility key.
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fraggle | 2 years, 9 months ago
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Yep, well there seems to be a few different ways,

There's a good tutorial here using Grub4dos - http://www.msfn.org/board/multiple-partition-usb-stick-multi-boot-os-t69211.html

The thread was started in 2006 and was last updated 10th August 2009

''Confirmed to work on Windows 7 build 7600 RTM''

You could also download "USB multi-boot 12" , A quick gogle search will turn up thousands of download sites..
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teflashfire | 2 years, 9 months ago Report

Grub4Dos is a good idea as well... pity I didn't think of it first. :-P

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madmongol | 2 years, 9 months ago
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If you want to see more of a walk-through, Revision3's Hak5 episode called USB Multipass covers the topic pretty well complete with show notes, and examples. You can find the episode here. The USB Multipass Segment 1 is how to install and setting things up. The USB Multipass Segment 2 goes into the actual setup to get your USB to actually boot the various CDs you are looking for. They also have a great thread going on the project as well on their forums. 

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teflashfire | 2 years, 9 months ago
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There's no reason you couldn't. Most of the major distros include GRUB as part of their installer, and so long as you set the partitioning appropriately, it should be possible.

Here's the trick to it - make sure the swap partition remains the same for each distribution that you put on there.

Oh, and I'm not so sure about how well GParted as a seperate installation will play with your little scheme. Perhaps you're better off just using the partitioner in Ubuntu?

For my personal advice, though... I would line up DSL (Damn Small Linux), Clonezilla, and System Rescue CD across your USB key. Save Kubuntu for the hard drive. :-)

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