A question about multiple boot options and live boot iso images

[Bret Busby]

On 30/10/2019, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 17:44, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> To be perfectly honest I did not understand Brett's huge multiline
> sentence, so I am not sure what his question was.
>
> No, AFAIK, the Ubuntu installer won't let you install directly onto
> removable media.
>
> However, you can attach a USB key directly to a virtual machine and
> then *as far as that VM is concerned* it is a hard disk, the only one
> in the computer, and you can install.
>

I am not seeking to install to a removable USB drive.

I am seeking to be able to write/copy multiple iso's to a removable
USB drive, and, thence to be able, via a bootloader, such as GRUB, to
select which iso on the removable USB drive, to boot.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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