make bootable dvd from multiple ubuntu distros

[spezticle]

How could i do this?
basically the idea is, the dvd boots, i select a distro, and that iso boots.
seems easy enough, but i don't know much about making boot loaders or bootable disks.

[emanuel.b]

How could i do this?
basically the idea is, the dvd boots, i select a distro, and that iso boots.
seems easy enough, but i don't know much about making boot loaders or bootable disks.
I'm not sure if this is possible. But if it were, I'd be willing to bet that it would be a massive pain in the rear...

[oldfred]

A couple of years ago a linux magazine I bought did that. But now I do everything with USB flash drives. I have 4 versions of Ubuntu, gparted, system rescue, and one or two more in my grub menu. I can easily change an ISO and update the grub menu and reuse as often as I want.

MultiBoot USB with Grub2 (boot directly from iso files)
http://www.panticz.de/MultiBootUSB
HOWTO: Booting LiveCD ISOs from USB flash drive with Grub2
http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1288604
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1451184
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20/GRUB2%20CLI%20Mode%20Commands.html#cli_loopback

CD/DVD multiboot
http://multicd.tuxfamily.org/

[wilee-nilee]

A couple of years ago a linux magazine I bought did that. But now I do everything with USB flash drives. I have 4 versions of Ubuntu, gparted, system rescue, and one or two more in my grub menu. I can easily change an ISO and update the grub menu and reuse as often as I want.

MultiBoot USB with Grub2 (boot directly from iso files)
http://www.panticz.de/MultiBootUSB
HOWTO: Booting LiveCD ISOs from USB flash drive with Grub2
http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1288604
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1451184
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20/GRUB2%20CLI%20Mode%20Commands.html#cli_loopback

CD/DVD multiboot
http://multicd.tuxfamily.org/

+1 and you can get a cd that will enable a boot from a thumb on a computer that will not boot a thumb.
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html
This plop works great.

[rwgale]

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[rwgale]

I haven't tried making one in a long time, but...

a quick search "create multiboot iso image DVD" came up with:

/www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-createmultibootcd.htm

and

www.byui.edu/Societies/Linux/Archive/creating_a_linux_multi-boot_dvd_LWellman.pdf

Best Wishes

[wilee-nilee]

I haven't tried making one in a long time, but...

/www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-createmultibootcd.htm

Best Wishes

This is a .exe only usable on a windows or maybe wine setup.

[spezticle]

there is only ubuntu-9.10-netbook-remix-i386 and not a amd64, right?
I got it to work and i'm just building the disk and collecting iso's right now.

i've got 300 DVD's i've been sitting on that i bought online and i'm not using them, so i figure i'll burn a lot of copies and give them out to people, so they have an opportunity to test many different flavors of the OS.