Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 24, 2006 06:32 PM
Instead of extracting part of the content of each bootable CD/DVD, you can create a multisession CD/DVD: Some bootloader will enable you to select which session of the CDROM you want to boot.
A quick test is to install the Gujin bootloader either on a bootable USB stick, your hard disk or a floppy, then write your CD/DVD with the "-multi" and "-tao" (track at once) like: cdrecord -tao -multi knoppix.iso cdrecord -tao -multi dsl.iso cdrecord -tao -multi puppy.iso keeping the same CDROM/DVD in the drive. CDROM have a maximum of 99 tracks.
Then you boot Gujin (depending where you have installed it) and it should automatically display a menu of all sessions present.
For more fun, you can also install Gujin boot.bcd as the bootloader of the first session of the CDROM, so that you do not need a separate USB stick/disk/floppy.
Note that some bootable session will have difficulties finding their own session to mount, so you may have to add an "session=" parameter to the right "mount" command inside the bootable CDROM scripts.
More info and FAQ/HOWTO at <a href="http://gujin.org/" title="gujin.org">http://gujin.org/</a gujin.org>
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 24, 2006 06:32 PMA quick test is to install the Gujin bootloader either on a bootable USB stick, your hard disk or a floppy, then write your CD/DVD with the "-multi" and "-tao" (track at once) like:
cdrecord -tao -multi knoppix.iso
cdrecord -tao -multi dsl.iso
cdrecord -tao -multi puppy.iso
keeping the same CDROM/DVD in the drive. CDROM have a maximum of 99 tracks.
Then you boot Gujin (depending where you have installed it) and it should automatically display a menu of all sessions present.
For more fun, you can also install Gujin boot.bcd as the bootloader of the first session of the CDROM, so that you do not need a separate USB stick/disk/floppy.
Note that some bootable session will have difficulties finding their own session to mount, so you may have to add an "session=" parameter to the right "mount" command inside the bootable CDROM scripts.
More info and FAQ/HOWTO at <a href="http://gujin.org/" title="gujin.org">http://gujin.org/</a gujin.org>
Gujin is a GPL software.
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