Is there any friendly guides out there on how to do it? I've read some before but they didn't work for me and I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong, I just want 2 separate distros (Gentoo and Backtrack) but... yeah 
Multiple persistant Linux distros on single flash drive?
- Thread starter Auraomega
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Easy.
1) Partition the USB drive, install a distro on each partition, install grub and off you go.
2) As one big vfat partition, copy contents of both livecds to drive (you may need some initrd hacking here), install grub, off you go.
3) create two folders, chroot into folder 1, install gentoo. chroot into folder 2, install backtrack. hack each init scripts to chroot into relevant folder for distro to boot properly, install grub, off you go.
Each have their pros and cons and number one is by far the easiest, although the least flexible. e.g. you won't see one of the partitions in a windows based machine (oh noes!) and it's very wasteful of disk space, but hey.
EDIT: ok... just re-read the title. no. 2 won't be persistant...
1) Partition the USB drive, install a distro on each partition, install grub and off you go.
2) As one big vfat partition, copy contents of both livecds to drive (you may need some initrd hacking here), install grub, off you go.
3) create two folders, chroot into folder 1, install gentoo. chroot into folder 2, install backtrack. hack each init scripts to chroot into relevant folder for distro to boot properly, install grub, off you go.
Each have their pros and cons and number one is by far the easiest, although the least flexible. e.g. you won't see one of the partitions in a windows based machine (oh noes!) and it's very wasteful of disk space, but hey.
EDIT: ok... just re-read the title. no. 2 won't be persistant...
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