Hey guys, I am looking for a way to create a multi booting CD with a few different Live Linux-based distros, and one windows based CD on there. I've tried a few automated programs (MagicISO and EZboot), and have had success with neither so far. Are there are other good programs to try, or does anyone know a manual way to go about it? Thanks
Sounds like you need a boot loader.
But, I realized that I've done part of what you asked. "a" way ....
For the Linux part anyway. Not sure just what you mean by the Windows based CD. You might want to elaborate on that part some more.
What I was doing, was playing around with the Ultimate Boot CD.
Before I forget to say it, not only is it free, it is a very nice tool to have.
On their site, besides being able to d/l UBCD, they have lots of info, tutorials, FAQs, forums, etc.
For example, on the Tutorials page, one link is titled, "How to integrate *censored* Small Linux (DSL) to UBCD".
Sounds just like what you want!
In the forums, there is a section titled, "Tutorials & How-Tos".
In it there is a sticky, "HOWTO: Integrate Puppy Linux with UBCD V4"
and another, "Customizing UBCD - Adding linux distros to your UBCD - more"
along with lots of other interesting stickies, posts, etc.
Main page:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.comSpend some time looking around.
Especially, see the link for Customizing UBCD
Forums main page:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forumsTutorials & How-Tos forum:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=6Note: In the stuff you'll be reading with UBCD, you'll eventually come across ubcd2iso.bat . It is used to create the ISO file, after you are done customizing it.
It has been a while since I did it. I remember that I had trouble with it.
It runs mkisofs.exe .
Discovered that one of the problems was that the command line was too long! ( Using Win98 here )
I
think the command line in that batch file is ok for WinXP. Don't know for sure though.
Just giving you a heads up, ahead of time.
I worked around it though.
After I did my customizing, I rebooted to a linux live cd. Puppy Linux.
Ran mkisofs (linux version) and it didn't balk at the long command line.
Created a nice, big ol' ISO file that I could then burn to CD.
That part worked like a charm.
There are probably other ways to create a customizable, multi-boot CD.
Hopefully somebody else will post with info on boot loaders for you.
In the meantime, I hope what I've said helps. If nothing else, you'll have a copy of UBCD, which is nice to have anyway!
