How to create a bootable USB drive and CD companion with the UBCD4Win

The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows is a truly awe inspiring tool. The absolute perfect way to build the tool is to create a bootable USB drive with a companion CD. The companion will boot the USB in the event you are working on a PC that is old enough to not support USB booting, the CD also has a full copy to the UBCD too... just in case.

The documentation on how to do this is pretty slim though. Here's my best attempt:

- Download and install the UBCD4Win build system
- Copy the source somewhere faster then optical media
- Launch the build tool and get all your plugins set the way you like them (leave the NoUSB plugin disabled)
- Build
- Use the UBUSB.exe tool to copy the output to a USB drive and setup the drive for booting (install Grub4DOS, write the MBR, etc). Also be sure the "create kicker" option is checked
- In addition to loading up the USB key, this will create three files in the builddir: nousb.iso kicker.img memkick.gz
- Copy kicker.img and memkick.gz into the USB-Boot plugin directory.
- Re-run the build tool and pair down your plugins so it will fit onto a CD and enable the NoUSB plugin
- Build
- Burn that ISO
- Test