Create a Multi-boot USB Stick with MultiSystem | Linux Today

Create a Multi-boot USB Stick with MultiSystem

Written By
DP
Dmitri Popov
Feb 14, 2011

[ Thanks to Amber
Graner
for this link. ]

“Thanks to tools like Unetbootin and Ubuntu’s Startup
Disk Creator, creating a bootable USB stick with your favorite
Linux distro has never been easier. But both of these utilities
have one tiny shortcoming: they allow you to install only one
distro on a USB stick. Enter MultiSystem, a nifty tool that can
squeeze several distros on to a single USB stick. Not only that,
MultiSystem lets you add a persistent storage for each distro, and
the tool automatically generates a boot menu with a few handy
options.

“An older version of MultiSystem is available in the Ubuntu
software repository, but if you want to install the very latest
release of the tool, you can do so using a few simple
commands:”


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Dmitri Popov

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