How to create a multiboot Pendrive with MultiBootUSB

How to Create a multiboot Pendrive is one of the questions that have been answered the most here in DesdeLinuxHowever, every day new and better ways of doing this are so necessary and fun work. In this case, we met MultiBoot USB, an excellent tool that will allow us install multiple Linux distros on a USB drive quickly and easily.

What is MultiBootUSB?

MultiBoot USB is a multiplatform free software written in PythonWhich enables create a multiboot Pendrive, that is, it allows us installing multiple Linux distributions is a USBIn the same way, it has the possibility of uninstalling distributions hosted on any USB.

The amount of distributions that you can install on a USB is tied to the capacity of the pendrive, so we can install distros until we run out of space. Distros can be selected thanks to the boot loader by default what is syslinuxIn addition, the tool has the option to test our USB or ISO in question through qemu, no need to restart or additional steps.

This powerful tool has a simple interface, multiple functionalities and also offers support for many distributions. MultiBoot USB does not have any specific presets for distros, it is armed with a powerful feature that allows dynamically modify installation settings, according to the packages included in the ISO, obtaining all the boot options available by default in the distro that you want to install.

How to install MultiBootUSB?

You can download the MultiBootUSB packaging and packages for various Linux distros from here.In the case of wanting to use the source code directly, you can do it in the following way:

Install MultiBootUSB on any distro

Download from the previous link the file «multibootusb.tar.gz» and place it in the directory of your choice, open a terminal, go to the directory in question and execute the following steps:

tar -xf ./multibootusb.tar.gz  
cd multibootusb  
chmod +x ./install.py  
sudo ./install.py

Then you can access the tool, from the applications menu with the name of multibootusb

Install MultiBootUSB on Arch Linux and derivatives

Arch Linux users and derivatives (Antergos, Manjaros, Chakras ...) already have an AUR package that they can install with the following command:

yaourt -S multibootusb

How to uninstall MultiBootUSB?

In case you have installed MultiBootUSB from source code, you can uninstall it by executing the following commands:

cd multibootusb
chmod +x ./uninstall.py
sudo ./uninstall.py

Creating a multiboot Pendrive with MultiBootUSB

Once we have MultiBootUSB installed we can start creating our multiboot pendrive, for this we need a USB that is formatted with fat32, then we will open the tool and it will automatically detect the USB that is mounted.multiboot pendrive

The second step that we must carry out is to select the ISO image of the distro that we want to install, finally we must select on the create option, accept the window that opens and wait for MultiBoot USB do your work. This process must be repeated for each of the distros that we want to install on our USB memory.

In case you want to uninstall a distro installed with MultiBoot USB, just select it and click on the Button Uninstall Distro.

In this easy and simple way we can have a usb with multiple Linux distributions installed, ideal to use as a rescue kit, installing various audit, security, repair distros, among others.


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  1.   Omar said

    Thanks for the article..

  2.   Eleazar Ramos Cortes said

    Thank you, what ISOS do you advise to put in the multiboot?

    1.    Ren Canteros Sousa said

      Hello, I recommend Debian and Puppy Linux, which for me are the best distributions.

      1.    Omar said

        I would add Knoppix

  3.   Ren Canteros Sousa said

    I did not know this application, it seems better than Unetbootin, I'll try it for sure; Cheers!

  4.   Adrian said

    Thanks for the contribution, very interesting, I am in the process of finally switching to linux.

  5.   James said

    The only problem that I usually have with these applications is that there are still very few that support EFI and some computers do not support boot in legacy mode or similar and I assume that since you do not comment on it this is not the exception.

    1.    lizard said

      I tried the Antergos UEFI distro using this tool and it worked, but I have not delved into other distros

  6.   Sergio A Guzman said

    Excellent contribution, although I can't get the Ubuntu 16.04 or 14.04 ISO to work. Although Windows 10 works perfect.
    According to this issue on his github (https://github.com/mbusb/multibootusb/issues/95) appears to be a known bug.
    Let's hope they solve it soon!