Create a MultiBoot USB using ventoy | 4rkal's blog
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With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO files to the USB drive and boot them directly. Whats ventoy? Ventoy is a free and open-source utility used for writing image files such as .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), and .efi files onto storage media to create bootable USB flash drives. Once Ventoy is installed onto a USB drive, there is no need to reformat the disk to update it with new installation files; it is enough to copy the .
  • @[email protected]
    20•5 hours ago

    Wasn’t there recently a controvetsy about Ventoy having binary blobs? Or did that get resolved?

    • @breadsmasherEnglish
      3•4 hours ago

      Reading through the issue on github, if you check the blob directories there are at least some level of documentation on how to build them yourself. I haven’t personally tried (rarely need to use ventoy in the first place), but at least thats something

      • @mashbooq
        8•4 hours ago

        I have tried–the instructions are woefully inadequate. I tried following them to build Ventoy and had to make numerous modifications just to get the first couple of components to build. At that point I gave up

  • @[email protected]
    11•4 hours ago

    The amount of advertising for this tool in recent times is starting to look a lot like astroturfing.

    • @db2
      1•3 hours ago

      It’s more like a bunch of kids discovering tying their laces at the same time.

  • Lucy :3
    3•4 hours ago
    1. sudo ventoy -i /dev/x
    2. sudo mount /dev/x1
    3. Profit???
  • LeafletEnglish
    3•4 hours ago

    Do keep in mind that Ventoy works differently from flashing tools like BalenaEtcher. Those differences may break certain ISOs, though in my experience that’s rare.

    • @[email protected]
      3•4 hours ago

      For some reason, it didn’t work on OpenBSD. I couldn’t install the file sets until I wrote the image to the flash drive normally.

  • Dariusmiles2123
    -4•5 hours ago

    Really useful tool!

    It even helped me as my Surface Go didn’t want to boot on a USB drive, but accepted to boot on it through Ventoy.

    It’s one of these miracle software 👍