VaKo Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 My main use of linux so far has been the LiveCD's from penertration testing/pretending i'm a hacker. The problem is that i've always opted for ultra portable laptops such as the Compaq Armarda 3500 (currently used as a remote desktop for my server and & wifi-hifi) and Dell Latitude x300, with external CD drives. Which i cannot be arsed to carry about with me. So how would I set up a boot system where I could have 3-4 different liveCD's on the hard disk, and choose which one at boot? So far I've got as far as figuring out i'll need to create several 1GB FAT32 partitions, and just copy the ISO contents to the partition. I don't have a method of boot management. The main OS on both these machines is XP pro, no wireless drivers otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 ummm install GRUB or some boot loader and then tell grub to search each partition? thats the theory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty D Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Why not just install one distro of linux to the HD and then install all the programs from your different live Cds that you like on that one distro, I think that would be a lot less hassle. If you already have a partition not used by windows you can just install it there and it will take care of the boot loader for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 1, 2006 Author Share Posted April 1, 2006 There are a couple i like, Helix and Auditor. the idea was to make it easy to swap them in or out on whim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 [half offtopic] For some reason, there are loads of live cd distros that have OpenMOSIX installed, but there are so few install distros that have OpenMOSIX... [/half offtopic] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mubix Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 There was a post on Digg a while back about a DVD making software that allowed you make a multi distro live-dvd, which you could probably modify to put on your hd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 There was a post on Digg a while back about a DVD making software that allowed you make a multi distro live-dvd, which you could probably modify to put on your hd. yeah i read that too http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/16/1724219 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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