MultiOS-USB

USB disk with multiple ISO files. Easy to use: install, copy ISO files and boot from USB.
Supported update configuration files.
Currently supported operating systems: display list

Requirements:

• curl or wget
• tar
• bzip2
• sgdisk
• wipefs
• mkfs.fat
• grub or grub2

Installation:

Linux console

$ sudo ./installer.sh [options] device [data_size]

 	device				Device to install (e.g. /dev/sdb)
 	data_size			Data partition size (e.g. 5G)
 	-fs, --fs_type			Filesystem type for the data partition [ext3|ext4|FAT32|ntfs] (default: "FAT32")
 	-h,  --help			Display this message
 	-g,  --grub_inst_dir <NAME>	Specify a data subdirectory (default: "boot_MultiOS")

For example:

$ sudo ./installer.sh /dev/sdX

Replace X with your drive.

If you want to display list your all USB devices run installer without arguments:

$ ./installer.sh

Image based installation (experimental)

Recommended installation method for Windows. Go to Releases and download the appropriate file.

After installation, copy your ISO files to /ISOs directory and boot your computer from USB.
You can also add your own configuration files to the /boot_MultiOS/config_priv directory. They will not be deleted during automatic MultiOS-USB update.

First usage

First boot with enabled Secure Boot on each new computer requires to install a certificate.

Press OK

Select: Enroll key from disk

Search for MultiOS-USB.cer in EFI directory (EFI/BOOT/cert/) and confirm key enrolling.
You can also immediately add certificates of popular distributions from rEFInd. They are located in /boot_MultiOS/tools/refind-*/keys/.

Features:

• BIOS and UEFI support
• 64-bit (x86_64) UEFI (+ Secure Boot from Fedora) support
• Load UEFI drivers
• Launch .efi executable files and other bootloaders
• Boot from .iso files
• Boot Windows 10 installer and Windows PE more info
• Boot Linux installer from network (experimental)

Update MultiOS-USB:

You can add support for new operating systems. There is no need to reinstall!

Automatic update

All you need to do is download new configuration files by typing:

$ ./updater.sh

Manual update

• Download and unpack this repository
• Remove all files and directories on your USB in /boot_MultiOS/config/
• Copy downloaded files and directories from config to above directory.