Sunday, 29 July 2018

How can I keep multiple live/bootable ISO images on a single USB drive?


I am looking to create a USB flash drive that I can put multiple live CD ISO images on and select which boots from startup. The ideal candidate supports Linux and Windows-based ISO images, and is relatively simple. It also must have some reasonable process for adding and removing an ISO image from the drive/list.


Things that I'm not looking for in this specific question:



  • UBCD4Win or other swiss-army knife live CDs. The point is to boot any one of multiple CDs, not to boot a (certainly useful) utility CD.

  • Installing a single live CD to a USB drive. I'd like to have multiple ISO images, selectable at startup.


I don't have a specific purpose in mind, possibilties include a single drive with a Knoppix variant, Ubuntu desktop, UBCD4Win for DOS, the Offline NT Password Cracker, etc.


Flexible and easy to use are the name of the game!



Answer



This is an interesting question. I can see it being very useful to have a single USB "master" LiveCD, instead of having so many different DVDs and pen-drives scattered around.


There seem to be a number of different approaches to this, all of them doable:



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