Does anyone remember a multiboot cd/dvd?

[cretsiah]

ok im going back to somewhere between puppy 2 and puppy 4 series on the murga

i think it was in the 4 series, someone developed a multi-bootable cd/dvd package that did a similar thing as ventoy.

- you dumped your iso files in a folder
- then burned it to cd / dvd rather than usb

from memory it had sys.linux, grub, grub4dos as its boot up sequence ( i dont know how the magic happened )

im looking for this program to build a cd/dvd because i wish to use it on a non usb bootable laptop.

laptop Toshiba L30
- cd/dvd drive
- 864megs ram
- 1.6ghz celeron

im looking to make a multiboot cd/dvd with
- haikuOS 32
- Bodhi 32
- ReactOS
- Freedos
- puppy 4 - 4.x series

anyone have any ideas??

the SG2D sounds like an upgraded version and might not function due to needing the old mbr way of doing things

[geo_c]

ok im going back to somewhere between puppy 2 and puppy 4 series on the murga

i think it was in the 4 series, someone developed a multi-bootable cd/dvd package that did a similar thing as ventoy.

- you dumped your iso files in a folder
- then burned it to cd / dvd rather than usb

from memory it had sys.linux, grub, grub4dos as its boot up sequence ( i dont know how the magic happened )

im looking for this program to build a cd/dvd because i wish to use it on a non usb bootable laptop.

laptop Toshiba L30
- cd/dvd drive
- 864megs ram
- 1.6ghz celeron

im looking to make a multiboot cd/dvd with
- haikuOS 32
- Bodhi 32
- ReactOS
- Freedos
- puppy 4 - 4.x series

anyone have any ideas??

the SG2D sounds like an upgraded version and might not function due to needing the old mbr way of doing things

I seem to remember Lucid Pup also had this capability, and maybe even Bionic (even fossapup64_9.5?). If you have a puppy 4 series and you can boot it, it seems like you would be able to do it from there. If not, one of these others would probably do the job.

[Keef]

Is this it?
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=23107
I've still got a few multi-iso DVDs knocking around, but haven't used them in years.

Moderator's edit: There's a link in that thread that won't work unless you change it to https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=16204
- Flash

[cretsiah]

Is this it?
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=23107
I've still got a few multi-iso DVDs knocking around, but haven't used them in years.

might be, thought they got it a little more automated than that though ( after reading the readme file )
dont remember having to do anything with the menu entries before burning disc

i know its been awhile and ive lost a lot of stuff, over the years

so thanks

[cretsiah]

I seem to remember Lucid Pup also had this capability, and maybe even Bionic (even fossapup64_9.5?). If you have a puppy 4 series and you can boot it, it seems like you would be able to do it from there. If not, one of these others would probably do the job.

i know i had 2 discs floating around somewhere, off hand cant remember if they got damaged or not

1 was pre-built i think by the package creator from memory had about 6-7 puppies on it

2nd one was one i created, think it ended up with 10-15 iso's on it

i spose worst case scenario i could try removing hhd and putting it in an enclosure, providing its not an ide drive in the laptop

[cretsiah]

well i found 1 of them not sure which one though

for nostalgia purposes
listed puppies:
- Puppy 3.01 Retro
- FireHydrant 3.01 Retro
- Wolf Pup Linux 1.0 Retro
- Chihuahua 3.02 alpha Retro
- Puppy 2.14R 1.01
- Puppy 2.12
- Puppy 2.02 Opera ( Mean Pup )
- MemTest86+ 2.01

however i forgot i'd removed the hard drive so only
- Puppy 2.14R 1.01
- Puppy 2.12
are really usable with such low ram and no drive

found no 2
listed puppies ( menu entries )
- Puppy 3.01 Retro
- FireHydrant 3.01 Retro
- Wolf Pup Linux 1.0 Retro
- Chihuahua 3.02 alpha 6 Retro
- Puppy 2.14R 1.01
- Puppy 2.12
- Puppy 2.02 Opera ( Mean Pup )
- Puppy 1.09CE RAM ONLY
- Puppy 1.09CE save_file
- Memtest86+ 2.01
- Reboot
- Poweroff

both of these were on CD-R discs
both work

[geo_c]

however i forgot i'd removed the hard drive so only
- Puppy 2.14R 1.01
- Puppy 2.12
are really usable with such low ram and no drive

I would think even then trying to actually do anything on the system would require a swap file somewhere.

Seems like in that scenario you should be running a tty setup with no desktop.

I have a single 1.6Ghz celeron Toshiba netbook, with 2GB of ram, and it's amazing what it can do. I run fossapup64_9.5, F96_CE4, KLV-airedale, and up-to-date browsers, Libre Office. It all works, and not even very slow, except for heavy websites. Of course it's a 64bit processor.

But if I only had 800MB of ram, I don't think the OS could run very well even without using a serious application. There's got to be some kind of port or slot on the motherboard for you to add a drive.

[cretsiah]

however i forgot i'd removed the hard drive so only
- Puppy 2.14R 1.01
- Puppy 2.12
are really usable with such low ram and no drive

I would think even then trying to actually do anything on the system would require a swap file somewhere.

Seems like in that scenario you should be running a tty setup with no desktop.

I have a single 1.6Ghz celeron Toshiba netbook, with 2GB of ram, and it's amazing what it can do. I run fossapup64_9.5, F96_CE4, KLV-airedale, and up-to-date browsers, Libre Office. It all works, and not even very slow, except for heavy websites. Of course it's a 64bit processor.

But if I only had 800MB of ram, I don't think the OS could run very well even without using a serious application. There's got to be some kind of port or slot on the motherboard for you to add a drive.

yeah i cant remember when pfix=noram came into affect think it was pups 3 and 4 series

however after addding a harddrive ( 240gig kingston ssd ) and making a 3.5gig swap
- using puppy 2.12 to format drive and adding linux swap partition
- puppy 3.01 Retro starts to work fine

by the way kinda funny seeing only ext2 and ext3 as main file formats ( there were others but im not gonna list them all )

currently experimenting with drive layout
- cant see a way to change drive from GPT to MBR in the older gparted
- trying to add a /boot specific partition
this might allow me to drop the iso's i want for install if i cant figure it out any other way

if it works i'll make a new post about it

idea is to get
- haiku 32 ( ram 384mgs required ) ( the new beos )
- freedos ram??
- bodhi 32 ( ram 384mgs required )
- debian 12 with ice or jwm running on it

its only for experimental stuff so i dont screw up my main system