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Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive?

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive?
Date 2016-04-29 22:00 +0200
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On Fri 29 Apr 2016 at 21:57:53 +0300, Piyavkin wrote:

> Though, I agree, parameters may vary. May be «fromiso» in the last example
> is a better choice indeed. I'd just experimented with related instructions
> until it started working for me and I'm done.

Look carefully. I didn't recommend 'fromiso'.

> > It is a source of contention (and a number of bug reports) but it is by
> design.
> 
> Why such design?

Suppose you want to install Debian; that's the objective after all. An
isohybrid allows mounting the USB stick directly. You dd/cat/cp the
image to a USB stick and boot and there you are - Debian is installed.

What does loop-mounting of an ISO file with GRUB give you?

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Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-04-28 17:20 +0200
  Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-04-28 17:30 +0200
    Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-04-29 17:00 +0200
      Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-04-29 17:10 +0200
        Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-04-29 17:20 +0200
        Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-29 18:10 +0200
          Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-04-29 18:50 +0200
            Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-29 19:50 +0200
              Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-04-29 19:50 +0200
  Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-04-28 17:40 +0200
    Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-04-29 17:20 +0200
  Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-04-28 18:40 +0200
    Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2016-04-28 21:30 +0200
      Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-29 15:30 +0200
        Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 21:00 +0200
          Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-29 22:00 +0200
            Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2016-04-30 20:10 +0200
              Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-01 17:00 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 17:00 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-02 20:00 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-02 21:20 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 21:20 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-05-03 12:20 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 15:40 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-05-14 14:10 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Rodary Jacques <rodaryj@free.fr> - 2016-05-17 02:50 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 15:50 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-05-03 17:40 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 18:40 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-05-04 17:40 +0200
                Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-05-05 12:10 +0200
    Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-04-29 17:40 +0200
      Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-29 18:20 +0200
  Re: Multiple live iso's on a single bootable flash drive? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-28 21:30 +0200
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