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]
    23•4 months ago

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

    • @breadsmasherEnglish
      4•4 months 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
        11•4 months 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]
    12•4 months ago

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

    • @db2
      1•4 months ago

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

  • LeafletEnglish
    4•4 months 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]
      4•4 months 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.

    • @riodoro1
      1•4 months ago

      I couldn’t get live arch to boot with ventoy recently.

  • Lucy :3
    3•4 months ago
    1. sudo ventoy -i /dev/x
    2. sudo mount /dev/x1
    3. Profit???
  • Dariusmiles2123
    -4•4 months 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 👍