Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[gcmartin]

I saw this and wondered "Can or IS Puppy's kernel upgrade for a given distro be this easy?"

Are there some steps somewhere to do this OR is there a Menu>Setup item that will do the same thing?

Wondering for any distro where the distro author provides multiple kernels for his release version.

[James C]

[gcmartin]

@James C and myself are one of the those who run LIve media systems with save sessions. (We certainly do a lot of helpful testing of distro this way, as well.) And, there are many members, I'm sure, who find value in using Live media to boot and run systems.

I know Puppy has a standard for building its ISOs. But, I have ofter wondered whether a boot manager of GRUB4DOS would be suited for distro builders which could allow 2 different kernels to exist on the CD/DVD with the user selecting, at boot time, which he preferred to boot.

So far, I would like to know if someone of us would be helpful in doing 2 things for community use:

1. describe how to use GRUB4DOS to make an ISO for Live media booting
   
2. minimal instructions on how to add a 2 kernel set to the ISO for GRUB4DOS menu selection

Shinobar presented a WARY; named QuickSET, several years ago but never explained how he accomplished the boot manager switch to GRUB4DOS.

Questions

1. Could ISOmaster be used to do this? Is there a write up somewhere?
   
2. Wondering if distro developers would find value in this?

I sure there may be some shortcomings that exist otherwise this multi-kernel would have been employed using GRUB4DOS earlier in Puppyland.

Here to help

[Q5sys]