Could i put several operating systems on a usb stick?

mrteabag · 7 Jun 2010 at 21:34

Thinking of buying(might already have one somewhere) an 8gb usb stick and putting xp,vista and 7 on it.It would be handy if when you booted the usb stick,you could just choose which os you wanted to install.
Just wondering

mrteabag · 7 Jun 2010 at 22:33

Oh,sorry about that.

mrteabag · 7 Jun 2010 at 22:39

I can dream

mrteabag · 7 Jun 2010 at 23:03

Might just have to do that mate,thanks

mrteabag · 8 Jun 2010 at 11:50

Sayso said:
8gb will not be big enough for the iso files, i tried to get W7, Vista and XP onto a 16GB.

Could use vlite or something similar,thats not the problem really

mrteabag · 9 Jun 2010 at 12:05

Found a way to do it with linux if anyone is interested.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-multiboot-usb/

mrteabag · 9 Jun 2010 at 16:55

Might have a go at the linux one later and see could i do something similar with windows myself

mrteabag · 9 Jun 2010 at 19:33

Superewza said:
Easily, just partition it like a hard drive and look at what distros offer USB booting. Should be able to add a GRUB menu on boot.

Oh, you want Windows? Move along.

Why im trying to do it with linux

Moeks said:
I don't see how that helps at all, you have no idea why he wants to do what he said, it may very well not be for the same system anyway.

Ha yeah,some people are like that.
'How do you..'
'Why would you want to do that anyway?'

mrteabag · 9 Jun 2010 at 22:22

Superewza said:
In which case yeah, just partition it and put the bootable USB image on each of the partitions. If you actually wanted to install them then you'd have to look for specific distros which support that i believe.

K. thanks