Quote Originally Posted by stars
Ah ... good question.
Ok ... here is the scenario. I have loads of iso distributions that I would like to have with me. But I dont want to carry/burn CDs all the time when there is a new release. Also note that each distribution may have slightly diff cheatcodes.
For instance, whoppix, kanotix, knoppix ... etc etc
so What I do is I carry with me a USB HD. (so its not easy to boot from USB either ... not nowing which is selected as SDA/SDB and not all bios supports that) Floppy is not always available on notebooks! hehehe CD on the other hand is very common ....
So what I did currently is I strip down the distribution to fit a credit card sized cdrw and bring it along with the USB HD (customizing to boot from iso). Problem is I have to have a cd for each distribution, other wise it complaims some modules are from diff kernel .... etc.
if I can have one custom CD ... that would be great! Thanks!
I think that the new beta version of grldr will do the job for you. It is a special version of grub which can be also used as a cd boot loader.
cf link: http://s119307663.onlinehome.us/grldr and you could use something like this to generate the iso cd image:
mkisofs -R -J -N -l -v -no-iso-translate -relaxed-filenames -graft-points -no-emul-boot -b grldr -boot-load-seg 0x1000 ...
Hope this help. Cheers, Gilles