A question about multiple boot options and live boot iso images

[Colin Law]

Will the installer allow one to install onto a USB stick?  If so then
maybe you can install in the same way you would if it were an internal
disk.

Colin

On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 11:04, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> A possibility has occurred to me, and, I do not know whether it has
> been done, whether it can be easily set up, with what now exists, or,
> whether it is something that would need to be developed, to put it
> into practice.
>
> Recently, Ralf Mardorf posted a link in the thread about tiny kernels,
> to a wikipedia comparison of "lightweight Linux distributions", that
> can run with lesser resource requirements, than mainstream Linux
> distributions.
>
> So, it led me to wonder, as some distributions can be run as live
> versions, where they boot from the removable optical drive (be it CD
> or DVD, and, some (or all of those - I am not sure) can boot from
> removable USB drives ("thumbdrives"), where a computer's BIOS permits
> booting from removable USB drives, and, as provision exists, via GRUB
> (and, I think, other boot managers), for a user to choose, when
> booting from an internal hard drive, which operating system, be it a
> choice between non-Linux OS's and a single Linux distribution and
> version, or, between multiple Linux distributions and version numbers,
> and, non-Linux OS's, whether something like a removable USB drive can
> be easily set up, with GRUB, or, something like it, so that a user can
> have multiple Linux distributions/versions live boot iso images, on
> the same removable USB drive, and, upon booting into the removable USB
> drive, be given the option of which distribution/(version number of a
> distribution), into which, to boot, to find which, is a good match for
> a particular computer's resources, so, I assume, having a GRUB, or
> similar, interface, on the removable USB drive?
>
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