[RFE] Multiboot support

FedoraQt / MediaWriter

Fedora Media Writer - Write Fedora Images to Portable Media

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[RFE] Multiboot support #53

Open mattiaverga opened 7 years ago

mattiaverga commented 7 years ago

It would be nice to have the ability to install multiple images to the same USB drive and create a multiboot.

MartinBriza commented 7 years ago

With the way FMW works currently, it's not really possible - now it just takes the ISO and copies it 1:1 to the USB drive. Modifying the partition layout would break bootup and if that issue was fixed, the internal checksum check would be broken in turn for every written image.

While I'm not opposed to this feature, it's a big chunk of work and I'm currently not able to commit myself to do it. If there's anyone stepping up to work on this, I'll be glad to help putting this together, though!

Mikaela commented 2 years ago

I have just learned that it's as cheap to manufacture 16 GB USB sticks as it's 8 GB ones so the later aren't sold much at least in Finland. Thus using mediawriter seems a bit wasteful in 2022 especially if the purpose is to have installable image for longer term and not restore the stick immediately afterwards.

Are there other projects available in Fedora repositories or Flathub that would have this feature?