brenryan Posted September 30, 2012 Posted September 30, 2012 Possible noob question (Please don't flame me! You don't have to reply if you don't want to!)Hi all,I have been having some issues creating a multiboot USB, namely XP and Win7 will not install. Also having trouble booting Backtrack5 in live mode.One of the problems is that there are just so many guides out there, I don't know where to begin! so hopefully somebody can point me in the right direction.I want to get a multiboot USB with the following featuresXP Pro SP3 installationWin7 InstallationUbuntu liveKaspersky RescueClonezillaSystem Rescue CDBacktrack5My companys proprietary installation CD (.iso)Partition MagicAnd Active@ file recoveryI tried using several applications to do this, xboot, sardu and YUMI with no success, XP and Win7 will not install.I would like to end up using xboot as I can easily change the menu background image, but whatever works would be fine.It's just that there are so many guides out there that I am having so much trouble. If somebody could please point me in the right direction and let me know what software and guide I should follow, I would be extremely grateful!Many thanks,And apologies for the noobish questions!!
csmith Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 I have been running across the same issues. I can get 1 OS to boot (either XP, vista or 7), but not more than one at a time. My idea to proceed at this point is to attempt to create a multiboot disc and then copy to flash drive and possibly try an additional partition on the same drive if possible. I would really like to have a disc for an IT guy. You know, all OSs from XP-8 with Server additions and other useful utils. I will update with any progress.
submix8c Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 Try looking around this sub-forum and use a different tool/method. You're currently looking/asking in the MultiBoot CD/DVD subforum and the one I gave the link to is specifically for USB. CD/DVD and USB work entirely differently.
whocares02 Posted April 4, 2014 Posted April 4, 2014 (edited) Reboot.pro might have usefull informations for you.They have a driver called firadisk. Grub4Dos can copy a whole ISO into RAM. It's slow but it works. However, when the Iso contains windows it will crash afterwards because windows don't know how to read the virtual-CD from RAM (only grub does). Firadisk is fixing this problem, helping windows to continue running from virtual disc in RAM, grub created. This is acutally meant for PE-discs like bartspe. But maybe it's possible to integrate the firadisk driver into XP-Setup somehow to run a whole installation from RAM.Edit:Here another link with a similar topic. Please post your attempts if you should try it. Edited April 4, 2014 by whocares02
submix8c Posted April 4, 2014 Posted April 4, 2014 More than one year later, whocares02 bumps a topic for no apparent reason. The OP has long since gone and undoubtedly won't respond back. (Are you stalking me? )
whocares02 Posted April 4, 2014 Posted April 4, 2014 LOL, didn't see the date. Just postet in some threat with view answers! But yes, I recognized you are very active here as well.
jaclaz Posted April 5, 2014 Posted April 5, 2014 Additionally there are dedicated topics to install XP from USB that actually use a .iso image mounted through either Firadisk or Winvblock either as ramdisk or filedisk here:http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/and on RMPREPUSB site:http://www.rmprepusb.com/jaclaz
whocares02 Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 It's just an idea....wouldn't it be nice if such an iso-mount was combined with netboot? Just typed in "netboot" in forum-search, resulting:No results found for 'netboot'.Szenario could be: XP-ISO residing on a stick, plugged in a router of a home-network. Every computer in the house had access to the stick and could get a fresh (unttended) setup, streamed over internal network. Never done netboot before. Not sure how realistic this is.
jaclaz Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 It's just an idea....wouldn't it be nice if such an iso-mount was combined with netboot? Just typed in "netboot" in forum-search, resulting:Which is "normal" , since the procedure is not called "netboot", but rather "RIS install" or "PXE boot" or "boot from LAN" (and you will find more info for this on reboot.pro, including a dedicated subforum), here:http://reboot.pro/forum/12-boot-from-lan/jaclaz
submix8c Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 Diskless Workstation - an old concept and used at one time "back in the day".http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/diskless_workstation.htmlhttp://www.computerhope.com/jargon/d/diskwork.htmAll the way back to Windows 3.x.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskless_nodeYou need a better terminology/synonym book.Or maybe (after a google of "netboot") you confuse Linux terminology?
jaclaz Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 @submix8cBut if the idea is to do a RIS install the "diskless" station must have a disk on which you install the XP after having PXE booted to the server .jaclaz
submix8c Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 Referring not to Installs but Remote Diskless Workstations. Gave the "Win3.x" as an early (and used) example.The MS KB article - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/114425Another example - http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/Same concept, different end result.Simply pointing out the "misnomer" that was given in the search for "netboot", of which I said googled.
whocares02 Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) Just found a few infos about PXE. It looks rather complicate. As far as I understood, someone needs to setup a Smb-Server, a special tftp-server, a special dhcp-server and provide a special folder-structure on smb-share with special file-modifications of setup-files. All this just to make possible a network-boot-disk might find the setup-files. ...doesn't sound straight-forward actually...It's easier just inserting a CD than booting-up another PC in network providing all neccesary servers. Edited April 6, 2014 by whocares02
submix8c Posted April 6, 2014 Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) ????ONE server!How do you come to the conclusions that you do (quite erroneously I might add)?http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.07.desktopfiles.aspxHere - try this "simplified" approach (disclaimer - have NOT used this) -http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/servaAlso look here -http://diddy.boot-land.net/pxe/One Server, all Server Services necessary, PXE boot from Client to Single Server, and Go-Go! I do believe the NIC has to have PXE built into the Firmware as well. The newer built-in NIC has either RIS (older), or PXE (usually), or Both.Generally in Corporate Environments it's a lot easier to set up the Server, go to each PC and PXE boot them. And it IS much faster than using a slower CD/DVD in this case. You can also, if the SIF/XML and Server is properly set up, just walk away from each one. Edited April 6, 2014 by submix8c
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