Create multi boot USB stick/hard disk with whole iso/s on vfat/fat32 partition
keeping existing data untouched.
Copy live-fat-stick to /usr/bin/ and chmod +x /usr/bin/live-fat-stick
Run this command as root (su -, not sudo)
live-fat-stick isopath stickpartition
e.g.:
live-fat-stick /home/geeko/openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-12.2-1-i686.iso /dev/sdXY
To add various distribution iso to the stick, run the following:
For openSUSE : live-fat-stick --suse /path/to/openSUSE-filename.iso /dev/sdXY
For Ubuntu : live-fat-stick --ubuntu /path/to/ubuntu-filename.iso /dev/sdXY
For Mint : live-fat-stick --mint /path/to/mint-filename.iso /dev/sdXY
For Fedora : live-fat-stick --fedora /path/to/fedora-filename.iso /dev/sdXY
isopath should be full absolute path of iso image and the device should be
actual partition on the stick like /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1,/dev/sdc2...
The stick partition has to be vfat/fat32 format.
Run live-fat-stick -l(or --list) to list the possible usb storage devices available.
openSUSE users can install it via 1-click from here:
http://software.opensuse.org/package/live-fat-stick
Simple zenity based GUI that runs live-fat-stick script
Copy live-usb-gui to /usr/bin/ and chmod +x /usr/bin/live-usb-gui
Copy live-usb-gui.desktop to /usr/share/applications/ and update-desktop-database -q
this should make Live USB GUI show up in desktop menu.
Run this command without any options as root from terminal (su -, not sudo) or
Alt+F2 and xdg-su -c "xterm -e live-usb-gui"
openSUSE users can install it via 1-click from here:
http://software.opensuse.org/package/live-usb-gui
It is possible to boot multiple distributions and iso images from same device, should work with all recent openSUSE or Ubuntu live iso images. Fedora iso is not copied but is extracted as it does not support booting from iso.
You are welcome to fork and submit patches for your distro if it is not supported by this script :)
Have a lot of fun...