Multiple bootable images on one disc

Nomad2012

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Hi everyone!

I have a fair few small programs that are boot-able when you boot the computer and its a waste to have them all on separate discs i would like to combine them onto one disc and be able to choose which one to boot into when i boot the computer....Is this possible?

Thanks anyone for any information they give!

Lucas
 

TenPc

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Copy then to the hard drive, you may not need install them if they are just utilities and not games. Otherwise, copy them to a folder on the hdd then burn them to a DVD data disk or CD disk. When you insert the disk, you can then choose which one to use from Explorer window.

If you are wanting a menu of sorts, you could create your own with a HTML page with the links on the page for each program, create an autorun.inf text file with

[AUTORUN]
index.html
 

Nomad2012

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Thanks for your reply, I was hoping to make a dos bootable image actually not really careing if it works in windows as such i just need to boot from it a bit like "Ultimate boot cd" how it has menu's in dos where i can select part'd magic etc but i want to set my own up fron other images like an image of win 7 an image of UBCD etc and when i boot it lists them and if i select win 7 it will boot into windows 7 install disc which will be inside the "usb stick" or main image how ever you want to refer to it.

Does this make sense?

Thanks guys!
 

Nomad2012

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ah heck i was hoping there was a better way then Magic Iso Maker...it doesn't seem to make a bootable image...i make a multiboot image with that and save it as an ISO and then use iso to usb and it puts it onto the usb for me...but it don't boot from it...

I just don't want to have to waste my 4gb sticks on one 250mb iso when i could be utilizing it for many iso's that boot in dos....

I did alot of research on this and found a program called YUMI anyone have any experience in this? I don't want to download it if its not good for the job.

Thanks for all your reply's guys!