Ventoy: use single USB stick for multiple installation images
"Ventoy" is an open-source tool that allows you to put multiple .iso files on a USB stick. Has anyone tried it? <https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventoy> Why do I care? When I want to install Fedora, for example, I fetch a .iso file and dd it straight to a USB stick. The result is a bootable live Fedora system that can install Fedora to a disk drive. This same procedure works for Ubuntu and a lot of other distros. One downside is that I have a collection of USB sticks that each has a .iso file. Each USB stick is mostly empty because .iso files are smaller than current USB sticks. Ventoy might allow me to use a single USB stick for my whole collection.
Ventoy is a tried and tested utility and a must-have for those of us running multiple distros. ------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, May 14th, 2022 at 10:53 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
"Ventoy" is an open-source tool that allows you to put multiple .iso files on a USB stick. Has anyone tried it?
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventoy
Why do I care?
When I want to install Fedora, for example, I fetch a .iso file and dd it straight to a USB stick. The result is a bootable live Fedora system that can install Fedora to a disk drive.
This same procedure works for Ubuntu and a lot of other distros.
One downside is that I have a collection of USB sticks that each has a .iso file. Each USB stick is mostly empty because .iso files are smaller than current USB sticks.
Ventoy might allow me to use a single USB stick for my whole collection. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On 5/14/22 10:53, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
"Ventoy" is an open-source tool that allows you to put multiple .iso files on a USB stick. Has anyone tried it?
<https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventoy>
I happen to have some ISOs right now, so I tried it on my T450. What worked: - Kubuntu 22.04 - Ubuntu 22.04 - Slackware 15 - Fedora 36 GNOME - FreeBSD 13.1 - Oracle Linux 8.5 - Windows 10 repair disc What worked eventually: - Fedora 36 KDE -- grub splash was distorted and unreadable, but responded to keyboard. I know it defaults to 2nd entry where it checks ISO. So, move up one, and enter. Once it booted, live session was OK. What failed: - OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Thanks Hugh!
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