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On Sun, 2014-07-27 at 01:31 +0100, bad apple wrote: > 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 > Just a wondering thought (do you need to *boot* different distros), ie how big or small can you make a std Deb system with just Vbox and as many Virtual machines as you can in the size of the stick? Probably not what you want but I would boot on anything with enough Ram. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq