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It is often common for people to have more than one operating system (OS) that they use on a regular basis. This can necessitate carrying multiple live or installation CD or DVDs. When multiple OSs are installed on a given machine, boot loaders on the system hard drive allow the users to access the various platforms. However, when the system is located in a public environment such as a computer lab, it is often desirable to hide the existence of any platform other than the default standard platform to avoid confusing the general user. This paper details how to create a CD that contains not only a boot menu to reach all of the OSs installed on your system, but also installation, live and network distributions that can be accessed directly from the single CD media.
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Feher, J.D., Bhandari, K., York, B. (2010). Creating a Bootable CD with Custom Boot Options that contains Multiple Distributions. In: Elleithy, K. (eds) Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3660-5_81
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