Trying to Create Bootable USB X3 Partitions With Testing Distros

bondppq

Can I have 3 different bootable Linux distro each on their own partitions on 1 USB thumbdrive, but what would happen when you insert the thumbdrive? Would a boot menu load first asking the user which partition you would like to start from?

I would like to eliminate any extra steps so that I can just plug in the thumbdrive and it goes into an autoloader mode to install the Linux distro, but a simple boot menu as described above is fine besides anything else further. Will this be possible and how much space would I need for this per partition, per Linux distro?

And with a new USB - (SanDisk Ultra Luxe 32GB USB 3.1 SDCZ74-032G-G46) after reformatting to EXT4 for these partitions will I be wiping away any vital Linux drivers or kernels that would prevent me from doing the set up what I’ve described above? thanks in advance for your advice.

arochester

https://www.linux.org/threads/trying-to-create-bootable-usb-x3-partitions-with-testing-distros.44716/#post-189634

bondppq

@arochester said:
https://www.linux.org/threads/trying-to-create-bootable-usb-x3-partitions-with-testing-distros.44716/#post-189634

Yes, I just joined a few Linux forums to blast message the same problem description to viewers because some forums are good and some are not, some forums don’t even respond at all. So why would I wait possible weeks from users that don’t reply back if I chose the wrong forum, I’m trying to get this fixed now, not weeks from now.

Only half of the forums I messaged responded back, 50% isn’t a good return ratio. So it’s better to blast out your problem to a few forums snd see which ones are the best and most informative and go with those top few and discard the rest. You yourself does the same as you are a member of both this forum and the one you copied-and-pasted here.

bondppq

@arochester said:
https://www.linux.org/threads/trying-to-create-bootable-usb-x3-partitions-with-testing-distros.44716/#post-189634

I joined 12 Linux forums and only 5 of them triggered responses back from other users. Out of those 5 forums, 3 of them went cold where its become dead conversations and now I have the last remaining 2 best forums which are giving active, valuable advice contributions from many users.

See Chester...that is the power of mass-mailing the same question out to multiple forums and getting back real and speedy results. You should try it for all business purposes instead of being the spy detective to think its wrong doing.