A multi-boot quandry.
I work as a technician for a rather large computer store chain *CoughCompUSACough* and was recently requested to perform a reletively challenging task.
You see, we have a stack of floppy disks (all bootable) that perform various functions...
We have Win9X bootdisks, Win2k bootdisks, WinXP bootdisks, 3 different commercial troubleshooting apps (perform memory stress tests, hard drive scans, et. al. to try and diagnose hardware failures), a set of Linux bootdisks, and the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor.
Now, as these are floppies, they're prone to going bad, being lost, et. al.
My manager requested that I try and discover a way to put all these disks onto a bootable CD with a boot menu to select which tool to use. None of these apps actually write anything to the floppies, so this shouldn't be an issue.
Sounds like a mission for GRUB/LILO.
However, I've never created a CD image with multiple "partitions" and varying filesystems before...and have yet to find any information telling me this is or is not possible...
So, to ye geeks, I ask you to pick your brains as to a way that one could go about creating a bootable CD that can boot into at least 3 different OSes (Linux, DOS, NT).
My initial idea was to do a layout on a 500 meg hard drive and create an ISO dump of that drive and burn it to CD...but, I've been rolling that idea in my head and don't quite think it will work...
So...anyone?
You see, we have a stack of floppy disks (all bootable) that perform various functions...
We have Win9X bootdisks, Win2k bootdisks, WinXP bootdisks, 3 different commercial troubleshooting apps (perform memory stress tests, hard drive scans, et. al. to try and diagnose hardware failures), a set of Linux bootdisks, and the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor.
Now, as these are floppies, they're prone to going bad, being lost, et. al.
My manager requested that I try and discover a way to put all these disks onto a bootable CD with a boot menu to select which tool to use. None of these apps actually write anything to the floppies, so this shouldn't be an issue.
Sounds like a mission for GRUB/LILO.
However, I've never created a CD image with multiple "partitions" and varying filesystems before...and have yet to find any information telling me this is or is not possible...
So, to ye geeks, I ask you to pick your brains as to a way that one could go about creating a bootable CD that can boot into at least 3 different OSes (Linux, DOS, NT).
My initial idea was to do a layout on a 500 meg hard drive and create an ISO dump of that drive and burn it to CD...but, I've been rolling that idea in my head and don't quite think it will work...
So...anyone?
