Simple Installation with Xboot
Many operating systems - including Windows - to offer ISO Downloads directly programs that allow you to copy the data from the ISO to a USB Stick and bootable can make. It is then claimed, often the whole Stick, so you can't combine these operations arbitrarily, in order to install multiple operating systems on the same Stick. Here helps Xboot.
- Xboot is an operating system-independent program that you can have multiple boot CDs on the same USB-Stick to copy.
- The program is only one among many, but is distinguished by the ease-of-use and high speed.
- First, download Xboot from the official Website. You will receive a 5 MB large archive, in which only the Xboot EXE is located.
- Unzip the program to any location and run it.
- Now you need the ISOs for the operating systems or Rescue Kits, you want to combine come. We provide you Windows 7, Windows 8 and Linux ready.
- You can drag and drop the ISOs of your choice into the XBoot window. There you will see all the ISOs and the required memory listed. Then click on "Create USB".
- In the next menu, then select the USB Stick and a boot loader.
- Depending on whether the Stick is in FAT32 or NTFS formatted, you will be recommended either Syslinux or Grub4dos. Keep on best of it, but of course you are free to choose the other options.
- Do not click on but the boot loader on the Stick as the boat is otherwise capable of.
- Now just confirm and wait - you already have a bootable USB Stick with multiple operating systems. In the gallery we show the most important steps.
With XBoot quickly to the Boot-Stick
Multi-Boot USB Stick with the Linux-Alternative to YUMI
Of course, there is also the Linux Community, a program that combines multiple operating systems on a USB Stick. YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Integrator) is available for both Windows as well as Linux, and almost as easy to use as XBoot.
- If you download YUMI, you receive unpacked a almost 1 MB large program.
- In the first step, you select the correct USB Stick.
- Then YUMI provides you with a seemingly endless list of potential ISOs available. So YUMI takes a bit of work, if you are planning to unconventional installations.
- This also has the advantage that YUMI does not "hide" at the last step of the ISOs corresponding to your selection, and you are guaranteed to only install what you really are installing. Sometimes, YUMI discovered even the correct ISO file on your computer by yourself.
- Now, if you click on "Create", get on with YUMI and installed the first operating system or Rescue-Kit.
- Once this is completed, you will be asked if you want to install further systems, and you can repeat the previous steps as often as required, to install multiple operating systems
- You not notice at some point that you need one of the installations, YUMI is also good at Uninstalling. For this, you just switch the mode and you see all existing installations and can remove it easily.
- More and more, YUMI can also find them in our picture gallery
Also YUMI combines multiple ISOs
Alternatives for multiple operating system installations
XBoot, and YUMI are of course not the only programs of this kind. Should you two have any success, it is worth also a look at MultiBootUSB, the SARDU multiboot USB creator and LoveUSB MultiBoot.
A further Multi-Boot Alternative
After you now have multiple operating systems on your USB-Stick installed, we will tell you next how to make bootable USB-stick to clone can.
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So you go in Xboot: Drag and drop the ISOs into the program and click "Create USB".
So you go in Xboot: Drag and drop the ISOs into the program and click "Create USB".
Select the USB Stick and you follow the recommendation, which is displayed (recommended).
Select the USB Stick and you follow the recommendation, which is displayed (recommended).
Now all you need is a little patience and the USB-Stick is ready.
Now all you need is a little patience and the USB-Stick is ready.
YUMI leads you from step to step. Here you first select the USB-Stick.
YUMI leads you from step to step. Here you first select the USB-Stick.
Then you make a decision: Which operating system you want to install?
Then you make a decision: Which operating system you want to install?
Now YUMI helps in the search for the appropriate ISO file.
Now YUMI helps in the search for the appropriate ISO file.
If you are with the first Installation finished, she asks YUMI to see if other programs are on the Stick. If you actually want to install, click on "Yes".
If you are with the first Installation finished, she asks YUMI to see if other programs are on the Stick. If you actually want to install, click on "Yes".
Also uninstallations are with YUMI easily. Put here a checkmark, and is deleted instead of installed.
Also uninstallations are with YUMI easily. Put here a checkmark, and is deleted instead of installed.
