A question about multiple boot options and live boot iso images

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bret Busby wrote:
>Liam Proven wrote:

>> Bret, that is ELEVEN YEARS OLD. It is hopelessly obsolete and you
>> might as well throw it away.
>
>I was not aware that I still had the DVD, until I found it in a stack
>of iso discs, that I have.
>
>My reason for mentioning it, and, for mentioning what I did mention
>about it, was that eleven years ago, now, and, as you said, when
>Ubuntu was only two years old, the capability existed, for creating
>DVD's with the multiple boot facility, that gave a user the ability
>to, using a single DVD, to choose which iso on the DVD, to boot.
>
>In the context of current new computers that do not come with DVD/CD
>drives, and, with the ability to boot from USB thumbdrives, I was
>wondering whether a scenario like that DVD, could now be easily done
>with USB thumbdrives, given that eleven years has passed, since that
>DVD was issued, and, given other advances in Linux (and in GRUB).
>
>It appears, from the responses that I have seen thus far, IT,
>including, especially, Linux, has not progressed to the extent that I
>was seeking.

Maybe it has. Section 4 on this page describes a method for booting
into multiple ISOs on a thumb drive:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/ISOBoot#Creating_the_GRUB_2_Menuentry

The page was updated on October 12 of this year, so the information
should be current and may be worth a try.

-- 
Little Girl

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