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I recently discovered ventoy and it's so useful. Don't have to flash isos anymore and can have a whole iso library. So useful.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Next time you feel the need to tell everyone how useful something is it might be good to include what it actually does so others do not have to google it themselves.

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can copy many files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them (screenshot). You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disks and boot them. x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way. Most types of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/ChromeOS/Unix/VMware/Xen...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I like having a few isos on Ventoy for live booting from random PCs for troubleshooting. Very convenient being able to have multiple architectures, DEs, versions of distros to boot from on one drive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you now find out about iventoy 🙊

Never need a USB Stick anymore 😁

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Worth pointing out that while ventoy is open source, iventoy is not. Might be important to some people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Code is on Github You can download the source there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"The open source part of iVentoy" is on GitHub. Perhaps it's not completely open?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That site gives me sketchy vibes. Lol maybe because one of the nav items is just named "Document"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's probably an issue of English not being the first language, or of translation. It's obviously a link to Documentation, which is a pretty safe assumption when you see a nav item named Document. You could have confirmed this yourself by simply following the link.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes it breaks.

Source: used Ventoy.

Also check your hidden directories, you delete ISOs and they stay there. Could just be Nautilus or Dolphin though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s great software! I’ve only had a couple ISOs that it didn’t allow me to install on bare metal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's very useful, but occasionally I'm not able to install some distro using ventoy and have to give it its own dedicated USB stick. Most works fine though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like which? Just curious just in case I come across those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had issues with ChimeraOS. Its install process is different though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's so useful having about an iso library? Isn't it just hoarding of outdated images very quickly? What's even the use case?

I am very curious, because I don't see it. You usually don't install so many different machines in any timeframe where it might be useful. For recovery you just pick one and you really don't need it often either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can thin out the obsolete ISOs and have well-used tools like DBAN, a partition editor, Clonezilla, etc. Make some of the ISOs live distributions and you have a way to repair a failed installation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When I did supoort I would usually have a number of cds for different tasks. Ubcd, winpe, knoppix , a specialized winpe to restore from synology backups etc.

Some of the modern tools don’t require it. Backups are easier than ever etc.

Ventoy isn’t a new concept. I have a usb drive with a bunch of isos. Just don’t have much use. Because I’ll burn an iso when I need to with Rufus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The sketch factor on this software is over 9000. I would never run it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why do you say that? The website is a little ugly in parts (the colored text bulleted list near the bottom) but it doesn't look "sketch" at all.

And if you can get past some poorly designed home page for a project, they publish the source with supposedly 101 contributors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is well established, if niche, software. I think your sketchometer needs calibration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'll take it in for a tune up :P

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Just because almost nobody need to have an iso library.

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