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Re: What utility do you use to burn multilive DVDs?

nelz — Sun Sep 02, 2012 11:13 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 11:13 am

There are so many ways of booting distros that manual examination of each one is the only reliable way of doing it. Chainloading the syslinux bootloader for each distro from a master one works best, but you also have to fiddle with boot parameters, or even edit init scripts in initrd images, because so many distro boot systems work on the assumption you are booting from the root of an optical device.

There is no magic bullet that works for all distros.

Re: What utility do you use to burn multilive DVDs?

blackspot — Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:04 am

Author: blackspot

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:04 am

Here are some possible tools I've found:

Quote:

# Buildroot package
http://buildroot.uclibc.org
Used to build basic ARL Linux distribution from scratch. ARL contains some patches and extensions to the Buildroot, which are included in the ARL package.

# Syslinux package
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
Used binary files allowing to create bootable iso and usb stick.

# Testdisk package
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Used binary utility testdisk and photoreg.

# Chntpw package
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd
Used statically linked utility chntpw and reged.

# Memtest86+ package
http://www.memtest.org
Used bootable binary allowing to start memory test during boot.

# ARL package
https://share.avg.com/arl
This package contains modified free version of AVG for Linux, patches, configuration files and other stuff needed by AVG and buildroot.

For more info see the ARL Package_Structure
iwlwifi microcode images
http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads
3945, 4965, 5000, 5150, 1000, 6000
ipw2200 microcode images
http://bughost.org/firmware

from: https://share.avg.com/arl/

Re: What utility do you use to burn multilive DVDs?

blackspot — Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:11 am

Author: blackspot

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:11 am

thanks. anyone else?

Re: What utility do you use to burn multilive DVDs?

lok1950 — Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:15 pm

Author: lok1950

Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:15 pm

And got quite good at it Mike

Enjoy the Choice

Re: What utility do you use to burn multilive DVDs?

M-Saunders — Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:53 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 9:53 am

Hi!

I can't speak for Ben, but when I used to make the LXF DVDs, I integrated the different distros manually. There's no magic tool to do it all automatically for any distro -- sure, there are things like multicd, but they only work with certain distros.

Ultimately, most distros have different directory layouts, boot options etc., so you have to be aware of these differences when fitting them all together on a single disc. It can get pretty complicated, and I did a lot of hacking on initrds and boot scripts back in the day.

Hope that helps!

Mike

What utility do you use to burn multilive DVDs?

blackspot — Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:54 pm

Author: blackspot

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:54 pm

Is it a Linux or Windows program?

For Linux, I've heard of the limited 'multicd' script. There appears to be better utilities for Windows.

I'm looking for a Linux utility or script(s) so I may take the Linux LiveCD ISOs I've downloaded from the net, or from your DVDs, and create my own custom multi-live chooser LiveDVDs. Thank you.