For our purposes thumb drives aren't any different from a hard drive in usage. Basically you just go to gparted or disk utility and format the drive, partition the drive if necessary (required if you want to multiboot) and create a filesystem on it. Multibooting off a thumbdrive would be a pain but possible. After preparing the thumb drive you would need to install grub to the mbr of the disk and then install/copy linux onto the different partitions. You might install grub again except into the superblocks of the partitions to separate and simplify the booting process and make it possible to update the software on the different linux installs without overwriting the mbr each time.
But honestly I'd just use UNetbootin to do everything for you. Sure you won't be able to put more than one os on the disk at a time but it is a lot more convenient. But remember UNetbootin doesn't always make a bootable disk and it may require different images or a different version of UNetbootin to properly make the disk. -Matt On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:15 PM, jbander <[email protected]> wrote: > Fat, fat 16 ,fat 32 ext3 I want to use it for multiboot program to > try > out multiple linux system from the thumb drive. I'm trying to format, > or > take off all the three Small linux programs that I have on it now I > want > to empty the thumbdrive so I can run multiboot through it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
