On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Raimo Koski wrote:

> Looks interestingly like something I did a couple of years ago. I
> believe Spectra Linux 1.2 was the last I did with "CD-ROM multiboot" as
> I called it. I used it mainly to offer multiple language choices right
> from the start and parted boot floppy.

I'm a litte confused by the thread here. Are you looking for a way to have
many, many boot images on one CD?

If so a good example is the http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ that uses
http://www.cdshell.org/ to have about 30 boot images.

   Steve
>
> I stopped when RH started using isolinux, because I thought that using
> floppy images would be too much trouble and El Torito supports only one
> boot program type of image.
>
> While El Torito sets no practical limit to the number of boot floppy
> images, 8 is the highest number I have seen supported in BIOS (Award). I
> added Smart Boot MAnager image to my older distros
> (http://btmgr.sourceforge.net, the project seems quite dead, but the
> product is still perfectly usable) to give multiboot option also to
> Dells and other machines which can boot only the first boot floppy image.
>
> I might use that trick again in the future, so I am interested in the
> problems you might have and I might be able to offer some help.
>
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>

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