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diff --git a/content/blog/multi-distro-usb.md b/content/blog/multi-distro-usb.md index 6993870..fe17602 100644 --- a/content/blog/multi-distro-usb.md +++ b/content/blog/multi-distro-usb.md @@ -12,11 +12,12 @@ or using [ParrotSec][2] for testing or [HTB][3]/[OTW][9] challenges. I knew it was possible to create a hard drive with multiple OS in different partitions, so I thought it had to be possible to do the same thing using a USB drive. - # How to create a multi-distro bootable Linux stick + Unless you are into [GRUB][8] and want to learn more about it and feel more comfortable fixing GRUB issues by yourself, -## Don't. +## Don't + After spending days looking into the grub configurations for running Rocky Linux and Proxmox (to no avail), I'm going to save you a deep rabbit hole dive. @@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ To quote the documentation: [Glim][7] ## Why? + At this point, I can't tell you why an image would work or not. I can't tell you how to boot Rocky Linux or what the required parameters to run Proxmox Linux are. @@ -50,13 +52,15 @@ All I can tell you is that it took me way too long to figure out that it's not s There might be a reason why it fails on the machine with the SSD or why it couldn't insert the `thinkpad_acpi` module, but for the original purpose of having a convenient way of setting up Linux and updating images, I will stick with having to run + ```bash -$ diskutil list -$ diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Untitled /dev/diskX -$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX -$ sudo dd bs=4M if=path/to/image.iso of=/dev/diskX status=progress oflag=sync +diskutil list +diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Untitled /dev/diskX +diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX +sudo dd bs=4M if=path/to/image.iso of=/dev/diskX status=progress oflag=sync ``` -and waiting for a few minutes, for now. + +And waiting for a few minutes, for now. [1]: https://tails.net/ [2]: https://parrotsec.org/ |