This post shows the steps to create a multiboot cd with multiple Linux distributions or tools.
For example, I created a recovery / disaster case cd with the following tools:
– Clonezilla (to clone/recover disks and partitions)
– Gparted (partition editior with GUI)
– Trinity Rescue Kit (linux distribution for recovery and repair operations on Windows machines)
The Multicd script tool (https://multicd.us/) can be used to generate the image following these steps:
Prerrequisite
You must have mkisofs or genisoimage previously installed
$ sudo apt-get install genisoimageDownload MultiCD script
You can either use the git tool to get it…
$ git clone git://github.com/IsaacSchemm/MultiCD.git
or download the master.zip file…
$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/IsaacSchemm/MultiCD/archive/master.zip
$ unzip master.zip
$ cd MultiCD-masterGet the ISOs you want to combine
Download the ISO images of the distributions and tools you want to add to the multiboot cd and place them in the MultiCD-master folder
Run the MultiCD script
$ sudo ./multicd.sh(must be ran as root)
$ sudo ./multicd.sh
Cleaning up - removing symlinks to files in current directory
Made a link named auto.clonezilla.iso pointing to clonezilla.iso
Made a link named auto.gparted.iso pointing to gparted.iso
multicd.sh 20170609
Extracting ISO images with mount; will build multicd; UID 0.
Clonezilla
GParted Live
Trinity Rescue Kit
Memtest86+
Continuing in 2 seconds - press Ctrl+C to cancel
Copying files for each plugin...
Copying Clonezilla (auto.clonezilla.iso)...
Copying GParted Live (auto.gparted.iso)...
Copying Trinity Rescue Kit...
Unpacking and copying SYSLINUX files...
Writing isolinux.cfg...
/tmp/MultiCD-master/multicd-working/boot/isolinux/cz-auto.clonezilla.cfg
/tmp/MultiCD-master/multicd-working/boot/isolinux/cz-auto.clonezilla.cfg
Building CD image...
Warning: Creating ISO-9660:1999 (version 2) filesystem.
Warning: ISO-9660 filenames longer than 31 may cause buffer overflows in the OS.
Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
...
99.51% done, estimate finish Fri Nov 3 09:24:25 2017
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 7110
Total directory bytes: 22994
Path table size(bytes): 178
Max brk space used 1b000
301487 extents written (588 MB)
Running isohybrid...
isohybrid gave an error status of 126. The ISO might not work on a flash drive.
Cleaning current directory...
Cleaning up - removing symlinks to files in current directory
Use your newly created image
Now, you can find your multiboot ISO under the “build ” folder…
$ ls build
multicd.iso
to boot from it!
