~Toughbooktalk~

1. The cheapest Cruzer Fit (SanDisk) were 16GB....USB Flash Drives.
these are sweet as all the doors in a 29 or 30 will shut on them. End of the bent and broken traditional sticks.....like my 8GB utility stick. Just under 6 GB full now. My pure Dos stick is bent.
I might pull the usb door off the 53 as it lives in the house. Maybe design a door with a bump out.


2. Of course I can format every time but was speculating about a multi flavor Linux stick....is why the menu question.

Yah, Cleve and I are crazy but we want to try everything and maybe there are some other nuts out there that want to try different O.S.'s.

So I will throw this out there and cook dinner.

Research later.

Thanks,

J'd

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/tag/multiboot-live-usb/

http://multibootusb.org/

Going to try it right now.

That is slick,took me a few minutes to make a 16gb stick with Mint 17.1 and Slacko Puppy on it,booted them on a CF-30mk1 and it is easy as can be. You have to like it.Just add distos and when you boot it gives you a standard menu of distos to boot from.

I'm proud of you. I'd found it but hadn't gotten to the point of testing it yet....Thanks for the post. Heh! Kerry the 'ix nerd.

Kerry, did you use "Yumi" mentioned in the first link or "MultiBoot" mentioned in the second link??

I tried multi-boot. Need more testing...(experience/practice). It doesn't do what I had in mind...but it's early days.......learning curve stuff.

Cleve I had to add a missing link from package manager....searching.........................searching.........................................O.K. missing files were related to QEMU. Ummm I think QEMU itself was not on 17.1.
Syslinux scares me as I haven't found out what it does yet. It says be careful in the menu. (MultiBootUSB menu)(version 7.2.0 btw.)

I used Multiboot,did you want to be able to switch from one to another without booting? Just so I understand.

No, I think what we're looking for is a way to boot up a usb drive and have a choice of "live" distributions (iso's) to choose from, i.e. Mint, Ubuntu, Zorin, CrunchBang, WattOS, etc.
I'll try the first link with Yumi, a new version just came out today.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multi ... b-creator/
Note this: "Important Note: YUMI was intended to be used to try to run various "LIVE Linux" Operating Systems from USB. Installing Linux from the YUMI created USB Drive to a Hard Drive is not officially supported. If the installer portion of any Live Linux distro does work, consider it a bonus."

Yes,that's how it works,you add as many as you want then pick from the list at boot. I put 2 on it and had my choice at boot just like a dual boot Linux/Windows.

Okay then...I found YUMI in the software center while using Zorin9 on the 52 GUN. I added it and then ran the program from my menu. It prompted me to insert a usb drive, which I did. Now I'm adding ISO's that were previously downloaded, many which I had previously burned cd's, dvd's, and usb sticks. I'll give it a go and fill a couple of 8 GB drives, and then report back. Thanks again for the links!