EDIT: See this post for quick SUMMARY of using wd_convert2multi (for installing multi-instances from existing frugal installs): https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 401#p99401
See below posts for using w_multi (for installing multi-instances from isos)
EDIT: version 1.0.0 -rc4 of both wd_multi and wd_convert2multi are now available. Too late to post more about them than quick info/download/use instructions here: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 334#p99334
NOTE that the use of wd_multi_grubplug is a temporary demonstration mechanism only for using wd_multi with Puppy Linux or perhaps other forum distros. When I have more time later I'll build that capability into wd_multi and so on itself - that will involve wd_multi detecting which kind of distro it is processing and adjusting the grub stanzas appropriately. For the moment you need to disable the wd_multi_grubplug (via renaming) whilst processing KL/FR distros and enabling it (naming it exactly as wd_multi_grubplug) when processing recent Pup distros.
DISCLAIMER: wd_multi and wd_convert2multi scripts need to be run as root user and are thus potentially dangerous - any mistake in the scripts may remove parts of the filesystem you are running on; USE AT YOUR OWN RISK but works for me... Safer to run from KL/FirstRib RAM2 save on demand mode only (or Pupmode 13)
A good (safer) distro to run wd_multi from is, funnily enough, probably a wd_multi created instance running in wd_changes=RAM0 or wd_changes=RAM2 mode!!! Afterall, you may have lots of these available after using this script...
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Following on from the "Sharing KL/FirstRib components between KL distros" this thread announces a practical build script that automates the construction as many frugal install KL distro instances as you wish to have at your fingertips.
Each instance (and you can have hundreds of such frugal installs, thousands even, in a few GiB of storage space) can be booted as an individual distro (exact grub stanza provided) with its own upper_changes folder so each can be customised into whatever shape and form you wish.
Short of time, so see this link for some details: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 151#p99151
The usage demonstration given in above link post was for a total of 300 individually bootable frugal installs (three different KL distro varieties) taking up a total space of only 2.3 GiB on my hard drive (i.e. under 8 MiB for each distro!).
Usage (all commands done as root user):
1. Create an empty directory on the Linux formatted partition you want to boot these from. For example:
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mkdir -p /KL_multi # the folder name is actually irrelevant...
2. Download the wd_multi script into that empty directory using command:
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wget -c https://gitlab.com/firstrib/firstrib/-/raw/master/latest/build_system/wd_multi && chmod +x wd_multi
3. Download or copy in any or several KL distro isos into that same /KL_multi folder (or whatever you called it)
4. In a terminal, at that directory, run the command:
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./wd_multi <n>
where n is the number of individual frugal install instances you want of each distro variant. If n argument is omitted, default is n=1.
So, for example:
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./wd_multi 100
would give you 100 individual bootable frugal installs for each iso type you are including.
Each frugal install instance directory includes an automatically created grub_config.txt file containing exact grub stanzas that you can put in your grub config to immediately thereafter boot that instance.
Please enjoy your potentially thousands of distros that fit in but a few GiB of disk space (or small usb stick)!!!
NOTE: I've only just briefly tested this, so please let me know if any issues. EDIT: Just used wd_multi 1000, using 3 isos, to make total of 3000 frugal installs (still just taking up total of 2.3GiB). My wife thinks I've gone crazy: "what are you going to do with them all?", she asks. Good question...