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. > > -- > Raimo Koski http://www.lineox.com/ http://www.raimokoski.com/ > -- Steve Traylen [log in to unmask] http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/