Mk-boot-usb: A Script to Create Multiple-Bootable USB Sticks | Linux Today

Mk-boot-usb: A Script to Create Multiple-Bootable USB Sticks

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 26, 2008

[ Thanks to Chao-Kuei
Hung
for this link. ]

“Mk-boot-usb is a perl script to create multiple-bootable USB
sticks (USB keys/USB flash drives). It wipes out an entire USB
stick, partitions it, creates file systems on it, installs grub,
and installs a minimal Linux on it. Mk-boot-usb is meant to speed
up and lower the barrier of entry for creating bootable USB sticks.
The USB stick will immediately become bootable (using the minimal
Linux), and more useful distributions can then be installed into
other partitions manually simply by (1) copying any Live CD into
each partition (2) modifying grub’s configuration file.

“This program will destroy all of your data in the USB stick. It
may even destroy all of your data in the harddisk and/or those on
any storage device attached to it if you are not careful…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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