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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

#14722 — Multi-bot USB sticks.....safe to try?

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......

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#14723

On 08/05/15 04:36, 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......
>
why not install your own multiboot software?


-- 
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the 
rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. – Erwin Knoll

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#14729

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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#14732

On Thu, 7 May 2015 20:36:25 -0700 (PDT), 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......

I prefer to build my own by hand:

http://www.beezmo.com/geezblog/?p=428
-- 
William D Waddington
william.waddington@beezmo.com
"Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch

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#14744

On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 6:48:33 AM UTC-7, Bill Waddington wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2015 20:36:25 -0700 (PDT), pureheart@.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......
> 
> I prefer to build my own by hand:
> 
> http://www.beezmo.com/geezblog/?p=428
> -- 
> William D Waddington
> william.waddington@
> "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
> the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch

Hmm.
Thanks for the replies.

I used to think that I was about a '2'
 on the 1 to 10 scale of linux knowledge with you guys being all the 8+'s.

Now I realize I'm probably not even a '1'.

Maybe I should start hanging out at the local Linux User's Group since I learn best by watching it done once than by reading man pages and hoping I don't do something irreversible to my system.  

Going to go check out geezblog now.....
pH

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