Putting several OS live images on flash memory.
by zaxonus from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6EE8D)
I want to be able to easily try new distributions of Linux or BSD family OSes, by getting a live iso image and then just copy it on a USB stick.
For that I am studying GRUB 2 (to simply choose among all my distros), hoping that it will allow me to do that in a rather standard manner.
Is there an already proven best way to do that ?
At this point I have installed GRUB to a USB stick, so the stick contains a boot directory and another directory called iso_dir where I want to copy the iso images that I want to try.
But there are already a few questions coming to mind. For example I have no /etc/grub.d directory. When and where does is come to play ? First of all for what I want to do, do I need such a directory ?
Also, I first tried to customize the file grub.cfg in my USB stick, but later read that touching this file directly was not a good idea at all. At this stage I started to play around but have nothing working (meanig no iso image I was able to try this way).
For that I am studying GRUB 2 (to simply choose among all my distros), hoping that it will allow me to do that in a rather standard manner.
Is there an already proven best way to do that ?
At this point I have installed GRUB to a USB stick, so the stick contains a boot directory and another directory called iso_dir where I want to copy the iso images that I want to try.
But there are already a few questions coming to mind. For example I have no /etc/grub.d directory. When and where does is come to play ? First of all for what I want to do, do I need such a directory ?
Also, I first tried to customize the file grub.cfg in my USB stick, but later read that touching this file directly was not a good idea at all. At this stage I started to play around but have nothing working (meanig no iso image I was able to try this way).