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I've been meaning to set one of these up for a long time - an 8Gb+ usb drive with a bunch of distro isos in a folder that a bootloader (probably grub2) can use to kickstart one of the many, many installers I need. I'll want the netinstall isos for Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, systemrescuecd, GRML, Kali, etc. Bonus points if it can boot Windows installer isos, Solaris, *BSD, XenServer, ESXi and all the other stuff I need. I know that grub2 can chainload almost everything and boot isos, so if necessary I'll do it myself the hard way but that's going to be a big fat headache to setup and a PITA to maintain. The internet tells me that there are loads of tools already to do this (xboot, yumi, etc) but they're mostly windows based (no idea what that is about as they mostly come from a site calling itself "pendrivelinux"), not up to date and limited in that they don't support many distributions/systems. Before I roll up my sleeves and spend hours scripting this from scratch, has anyone else been down this road before and done it for me? If it wasn't for the fact that this tool will be needed for offline usage I'd just dd ipxe to a usb stick and netboot off an install server. Plus it would be an incredibly useful tool no matter how you look at it. A 64Gb+ usb stick with some persistent storage, room to dump backups to and almost every iso you can think of in your pocket would cheer up most sysadmins after all. Yours hopefully -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq