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Re: Multi-bot USB sticks.....safe to try?

From Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Multi-bot USB sticks.....safe to try?
Date 2015-05-08 12:33 +0000
Message-ID <cr3op9Fjbv2U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2015-05-08, pureheart@pacbell.net <pureheart@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks.
>
> I've seen these USB drives on eBay that claim to have 8 to 30 
> flavours of bootable linux versons on them.
>
> Here's one:
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Multi-boot-USB-Flash-Drive-Bootable-
> Ubuntu-Linux-Mint-Puppy-Linux-Slax-/330863357703?pt=
> LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d08fe2f07
>
>
> They all seem well and good, buy my paranoid side wonders 
> if they could be "infected" in some way and 
> be letting myself in for trouble.
>
> So the question: Is there any risk to trying one of these things 
> or should I not touch one with the proverbial ten-foot pole?
>
> Pureheart
>
> Currently Mint 10 w/ Mint 15 Cinnamon sitting on the shelf 
> waiting to install but not wanting to have to go through 
> all the customizing again.
>
> Anyway......

If your that paranoid....make them yourself using MultiSystem
LiveCD(USB). 

"Create your MultiBoot LiveUSB simply with MultiSystem.
Just Drag & Drop your .iso on a window and that's it!
MultiSystem enables a LiveUSB to do everything,
ideal for exploring different Linux distributions without 
installing them on your PC, easily !"

I posted pic of MultiSystem webpage translated to English 
here for quick read:
http://postimg.org/image/5zuuyldd5/

Here is the link to the actual wegpage: (In French)
http://lea-linux.org/documentations/MultiSystem-LiveUSB-MultiBoot

Download MultiSystem here: (hint-> ms_lts_precise_r9.iso)
http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/sfnet_multisystem/

Or use MultiBootUSB found here:
http://multibootusb.org/
Download from here:
http://multibootusb.org/download/

Or use this script found here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallAndBootMultipleLinuxFromPendriveFlashDriveUSBDisk

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Multi-bot USB sticks.....safe to try? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-05-07 20:36 -0700
  Re: Multi-bot USB sticks.....safe to try? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-08 05:16 +0100
  Re: Multi-bot USB sticks.....safe to try? Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-05-08 12:33 +0000
  Re: Multi-bot USB sticks.....safe to try? Bill Waddington <william.waddington@beezmo.com> - 2015-05-08 06:49 -0700
    Re: Multi-bot USB sticks.....safe to try? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-05-08 18:28 -0700

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