USB booting :: DSL Embedded + Ubuntu on USB?



curaga, google says otherwise though ;p
e.g. http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Ubuntuliveusb
so it looks like my suggestion still stands

I suppose your home partitions (if you choose to use em) will be ext* though.
Oh. I was thinking about standard Ubuntu install..
Well, I am running into some issues.  The Qemu aspect is mostly in hand: a script found on pendrivelinux solved the issue of multiple OSs booting from one partition, I just put each OS in their own directory and no sweat.  The issues I am having now are getting these OS to boot from bios startup, as Ubuntu uses GRUB and DSL uses syslinux.  Also, I cannot seem to get the linux-boot.sh script to launch DSL embedded from within linux, has this been changed?  It does not show up in DSL 3.3 embedded at all.  What is the current equivalent of the 5-way install?  Thanks.

                                             D33p
Afaik the linux qemu script was removed because there were some problems with it (personally I never had a problem though...)
It's easy enough just to edit the .bat file of your choice though.

Just use 1 bootloader. It's transparent to the operating system so it doesn't matter which one you use (syslinux will have greater compatibility though).
Thanks for the response.  So, here is what I am going to try: 1)install DSL 3.3 embedded onto pendrive using syslinux, using frugal install.  2)Get it to confirm boot from BIOS and QEMU.  3)Create an Ubuntu directory on the same partition, get it to also boot from QEMU.  4) Modify Syslinux script to recognize and boot Ubuntu from its directory. I will have created an additional two partitions on the drive, one a Casper R/W for Ubuntu in persistent, and one in ext2 for DSL to save settings.  I only have a few more questions: what can I do to maximize the life of my pendrive?  I want this to last for more than a few months, so which method of using these OS minimizes writes?  Are there any flaws in the previous method? Thanks.

                                              D33p

p.s. Have tried messing with the .bat script to regain Linux booting, but no joy.  Are there any other required files to enable Linux in Linux booting?
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