HowTo Put Multiple Live Images On One USB Memory Stick

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Overview

The livecd-iso-to-disk program is used by Fedora based distributions (like NST) to transfer the contents of a Live ISO image to a USB memory stick. The livecd-iso-to-disk program works well and offers some extra features (such as persistent storage). However, it is primarily used when you want to put a single Fedora based distribution onto a USB memory stick.

It is often desirable to create a USB memory stick with multiple Live images to choose from (NST 32 bit, NST 64 bit, Ubuntu, Debian, ...). To accomplish this, you must:

  • Create a primary bootable partition on a USB memory stick.
  • Format the partition as FAT 32 (if you want easy access to the files from non Linux based systems).
  • Install the GRUB 2 boot loader onto the USB memory stick.
  • Transfer ISO images (Debian based distros) or contents from the ISO for other distributions (Fedora based distros).

Prepare Your USB Memory Stick

Copy Files From ISO (NST, Fedora)

Copy ISO Files (Debian, Ubuntu, ...)

Create Grub 2 Configuration

Create Menu Entry Files

Create Script To Join Menu Entry Files

Run Script

Test