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[RFE] Multiboot support

Open mattiaverga opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

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

mattiaverga avatar Dec 30 '16 18:12 mattiaverga

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!

MartinBriza avatar Jan 03 '17 16:01 MartinBriza

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?

Mikaela avatar May 13 '22 17:05 Mikaela