Official MediCat USB - A Multiboot Linux USB for PC Repair

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the medicat dvd includes both win10pe and lubuntu?
I can't find a list of the software included, where can i find it?
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the medicat dvd includes both win10pe and lubuntu?
I can't find a list of the software included, where can i find it?
thank you!
Yes, the full DVD and Naked DVD both come with Lubuntu and Win10PE. I didn't don't make software lists yet.
 
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I'm a computer tech/repair person and I am trying to put together a MEGA USB flash drive consisting of various tools and installations I have come across the Medicat program and was very intrigued as I also use Hiren's Boot CD however when trying to make a multiboot USB with WINTOFLASH professional I encounter an error "unable to load COM32 vesamenu" when trying to load the Medicat program from the resulted USB any help would be appreciated :)
 

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I've never used WINTOFLASH, but some people have managed to get it working with Easy2Boot. I've never used that either, but I hear it works. YUMI is also another multiboot option.
 

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I've never used WINTOFLASH, but some people have managed to get it working with Easy2Boot. I've never used that either, but I hear it works. YUMI is also another multiboot option.

I've tried YUMI and to be honest it's not my flavor you have to add iso one at a time and it's limited in functionality but thank you for the quick reply

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what type of bootloader does Medicat use
 

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I found the version number for it :) the only thing I can think of is the syslinux is a different version for wintoflash how could I make them match?
That I don't know. Maybe use a newer version of WINTOFLASH?
 

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Chapeau! you made a great product, awesome!
but I find it a little poorly documented, I want to put some software on both lubuntu and win10 and make it persistent so
every time i boot the usb I can use it.
Precisely I think clonezilla should be included because it works very well with ext4 fs (other tools have problems)
can I include it myself somehow?
Also I have some portable windows programs I would like to use.
Thank you for your hard work, can't wait oct 23 to try the new version with aardvark and creators update :)
 

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Chapeau! you made a great product, awesome!
but I find it a little poorly documented, I want to put some software on both lubuntu and win10 and make it persistent so
every time i boot the usb I can use it.
Precisely I think clonezilla should be included because it works very well with ext4 fs (other tools have problems)
can I include it myself somehow?
Also I have some portable windows programs I would like to use.
Thank you for your hard work, can't wait oct 23 to try the new version with aardvark and creators update :)
It is included, you just have to boot up PartedMagic to use it.
 
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Not to excite anyone too soon, but the guy who made Plop boot manager is working on a new boot manager for both BIOS and UEFI. And he states he might even release a v5.1 of Plop, since he's found bugs to fix in the USB drivers! If either of these release, I'll do my best to incorporate them into MediCat USB.

Source: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmgr-new.html
 
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Hi, when I try to boot mini windows 10 from usb stick, system won't boot. Just showing grub shell..what shoud I do?
Thank you
Did you use Rufus to put it on the USB stick? And are you using the latest release?
 

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Please help me to add Victoria 3.52 (for DOS, not foe Windows) in MediCat flash drive. I can't.

I put victoria.ima (goo.gl/48oZ8G) into MEDICAT folder on usb flash. Add this text in harddisk_tools.cfg (between GParted and Norton Ghost):
Code:
LABEL Victoria v3.52
MENU LABEL Victoria v3.52 ==>
KERNEL memdisk
        kernel /memdisk
    APPEND ramdisk_size=900000 initrd=/MEDICAT/victoria.ima
text help
                         Victoria v3.52.
endtext

But i get next error: s018.radikal.ru/i509/1710/99/08a630412ad4.jpg

How i fix it? Thanks!
 
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Please help me to add Victoria 3.52 (for DOS, not foe Windows) in MediCat flash drive. I can't.

I put victoria.ima (goo.gl/48oZ8G) into MEDICAT folder on usb flash. Add this text in harddisk_tools.cfg (between GParted and Norton Ghost):
Code:
LABEL Victoria v3.52
MENU LABEL Victoria v3.52 ==>
KERNEL memdisk
        kernel /memdisk
    APPEND ramdisk_size=900000 initrd=/MEDICAT/victoria.ima
text help
                         Victoria v3.52.
endtext

But i get next error: s018.radikal.ru/i509/1710/99/08a630412ad4.jpg

How i fix it? Thanks!
I'm currently at work, but I'll test this out when I get home.
 

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