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bermuda345
July 27th, 2008, 01:21 PM
I have several operating systems that I want to try out. And it is a waste to burn a 600 mb iso image to a 4.7 gb dvd. I was wondering if there was a way to boot multiple OSes from one dvd. I want to put ubuntu-8.04.1, Back Track, Damn Small Linux, Puupy Linux, Zenwalk live, core and standard, ReactOS, RipLinux, Slitaz, and DeliLinux. All together they equal 3.1 GB.

maybeway36
July 27th, 2008, 02:21 PM
It is most likely possible, but requires some tinkering with ISOLINUX and gensioimage. If you want, you can look at my script (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=718016) and see how it works. It combines distros onto one ISO image, but it doesn't have support for any big 700MB distros like Ubuntu. (It should be possible, but I don't really use DVDs so I'm no that interested in writing code for it.)

Another topic that might help is jabagawee's project: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=703905