Syslinux

PXE Knife is a tool for booting various floppy based utilities via syslinux, allowing them to be booted off a CD, a hard drive, or over the network via PXE. PXE Knife can be used with a number of commonly used tools such as hard drive manufacturers utilities, memory testers, Linux recovery...

mksysdisp is a small but fast Converter/Generator for the bootmessages used by syslinux

makebootfat is a command line utility able to create bootable USB disks for Linux and Windows using the FAT filesystem and syslinux. makebootfat is the most advanced tool available able to make bootable USB disks. Its able to autodetect/partition/format/populate the USB disk in a single step...


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GRUB4DOS can boot off DOS / LINUX, or via Windows boot manager / syslinux / lilo, or from MBR / CD. It also has builtin BIOS disk emulation, ATAPI CDROM driver, etc. GRUB4DOS can be easily run via command-line so you can take it for a test drive to see what it's all about!


Platforms: Windows

Ubuntu LiveUSB is a tool to create a bootable Live USB stick from the running Ubuntu Live CD. Here are some key features of "Ubuntu LiveUSB": ?*A* Detects available USB sticks (using HAL) and asks user which one to use ?*A* Partitions USB stick with 1 partition ?*A* Sets partition bootable ?*A*...


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gif2lss is a utility for converting 16 color gif images to the LSS encoding used by H.Peter Anvin's SYSLINUX graphical splash screens.


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FlashBoot is a tool to make USB storage devices bootable. FlashBoot supports USB thumbdrives and USB HDDs. FlashBoot partitions, formats USB storage device and then automatically installs operating system files to it. Supported operating systems: Windows 8/7/Vista/XP, SysLinux-based disks,...


Platforms: Windows

Alfalinux is a minidistribuition on two floppy disks much different from other similar products: that is no non-standard/reduced or remaked system parts, no bad overformatted floppy disks, no such things like other similar mini distributions. Alfalinux is a STANDARD portable SLACKWARE (3.5...


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ivrescue is a small Linux rescue CD, suitable for booting systems that have become unbootable due to filesystem corruption or whatever. As an added bonus, everything is loaded into RAM - once the machine has booted, you can remove the CD from the drive. It lies somewhere between minimalist boot...


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disktypes purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes. The program is written in C and is designed to compile on any modern Unix flavour1. It is self-contained and in general works without...


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Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) bootable Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size, Damn Small Linux strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Having a working Linux desktop distro on a 50 mb bootable business card CD is just too cool not to do. Damn...


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Netstation is a Linux distribution that enables you to convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thin clients supporting all major connectivity protocols. The project can be booted from the network using Etherboot/PXE or from standard media like floppy/CD/hd/flash-disk etc. The...


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DeadMini is a tiny distribution designed for modular usage. DeadMini linux is currently under heavy developement, but so far it contains applications such as dropbear client, midnight command and of course screen. The main advantage is that it boots anywhere - wherever you can stick the files,...


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Parted Magic is a ~30mb LiveCD/USB with its only purpose being partitioning hard drives. Although GParted and Parted are the main programs, the CD/USB also offers programs like partimage, testdisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, etc... Parted Magic is based on my work from the GParted LiveCD project and...


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Plan-B is a bootable Linux environment without the need for a hard drive, it runs entirely in ram or from the cd, based on a basic, stripped installation of Red Hat Linux and the fundamental workings of the SuperRescue CD. A list of tools and utilities are also included for projects such as: *...


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Microdrive is basically a set of scripts which you can use to make your own live linux cd. It depends on busybox, isolinux and linux of course. I am planning to build a small bunch of diskless, monitorless, keyboardless nodes to do my rendering work [3D]. For them to run, I have various...


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Timos rescue CD set provides an easy way to generate bootable CDROMs with a ready-to-use rescue system on them. The system is designed to be fully customizable and easy to build. The rescue system includes reiserfs, parted, partimage, nmap, w3m, bash, sshd, telnetd, ftpd, and nfsd. It is based...


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YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer), is the successor to MultibootISOs. It can be used to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive containing multiple operating systems, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, diagnostic tools, and more. Contrary to MultiBootISO's which used grub to boot ISO files...


Platforms: Windows

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk....


Platforms: Linux

Netstation is a Linux distribution that enables you to convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thin clients supporting all major connectivity protocols. It can be booted from the network using Etherboot/PXE or from standard media like floppy/CD/hd/flash-disk etc. The configuration is...


Platforms: *nix