PopeKevinI
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I need to find a way to boot a number of options off a USB drive. (and quickly, I was told to have it done today if possible...yeah, right). My first thought was to use GRUB, and I'm going to have to give myself a crash course in whatever it is I use.
Here's a short list of what we'll be doing:
various diagnostic utilities, including memtest and DOS-based HDD diagnostics
At least three DOS boot disks for running ghost images
I'd like to include a basic Linux LiveCD package, probably DSL.
Most of those can be run off ISOs if grub can most and use those. The exception would be the Ghost disks, which use DOS-based drivers to scan for a number of NICs and at some part of that process writes to the disk (we know this because it fails to work off a CD for this reason)
Is grub the best (or at least simplest) choice for what I'm looking to do? Can someone give me some good resources for making a quick start of this, so I can at least have a significant start on the project even if it's not finished after a few hours? A lot of docs I'm finding are rather tedious and would take hours of reading to get me started; I'll do it if I have to, but I'd rather get a walkthrough on some of what I need and go back and fill in the gaps later when I'm not under the gun for some results.
Here's a short list of what we'll be doing:
various diagnostic utilities, including memtest and DOS-based HDD diagnostics
At least three DOS boot disks for running ghost images
I'd like to include a basic Linux LiveCD package, probably DSL.
Most of those can be run off ISOs if grub can most and use those. The exception would be the Ghost disks, which use DOS-based drivers to scan for a number of NICs and at some part of that process writes to the disk (we know this because it fails to work off a CD for this reason)
Is grub the best (or at least simplest) choice for what I'm looking to do? Can someone give me some good resources for making a quick start of this, so I can at least have a significant start on the project even if it's not finished after a few hours? A lot of docs I'm finding are rather tedious and would take hours of reading to get me started; I'll do it if I have to, but I'd rather get a walkthrough on some of what I need and go back and fill in the gaps later when I'm not under the gun for some results.