OBI on DVD and more...

[brendanperrine@gmail.com]

plop is really good at getting things to boot off old hardware is plop boot
manager.
http://www.plop.at/
It is really easy for me to use at least.


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Andre Rodovalho
<andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>wrote:

> I would like to know how can I create a DVD media with OBI and several
> Ubuntu flavors or  other distros...
>
> The reason for that is, sometimes it is much easier to get a DVD drive
> than fighting to boot USB drives on old hardware... With such media, I
> could have about 4 distros, properly I could burn amd64 and i386 versions
> of Lubuntu, and have many other options to install
>
> I thought I could use the compressed dd image to get a iso file, and maybe
> with on this iso add some tarballs to /tarballs directory. But I never did
> something like this on Linux. Maybe there is a easier way to get this done
> too...
>
> Another thing, I would like to suggest an change on mkusb script. I
> recently had to use on  the partimage linux. There is no "sudo" there, so I
> could not properly use this script to make a installation media. Root user
> is always available on this distro, and also, there is some distros that
> have no sudo binary...
>
> So, to get some more generic script, maybe the right thing to do is to
> remove all sudo from code, and run the script as root user. In a debian
> like distro "sudo ./mkusb".
>
> I'm hearing you thoughts...
>
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