I love this project so much! Makes it super convenient having all my ISOs on a single drive
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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This is cool but iventoy is freaking exciting me.
What's that?
Looks like ventoy PXE/netboot edition
I'm sorry but I still have no idea
ventoy but instead of it being installed on a usb stick it is set up as a PXE Server, which then serves boot images over the network to your clients that you want to install
Thank you
Love love love this! Can't believe I'm just now hearing about it
I’m looking into creating a bootable USB on Linux with GParted, Clonezilla and a few other tools. Can you do that with Ventoy?
Most people are talking about having a multiple distributions on one USB stick, but I just wanted to be sure you can also do that with these tools 😇
Yep, indeed you can. Once you format the disk with Ventoy, you simply need to copy the ISOs to the drive and you're done, no extra config needed.
Thanks for your answer
I have been using the same instance of ventoy for years. Maybe it's time to update my flashdrive
If this works, it's a game changer!! I would have neede this two days ago xD Will try it later!
It works.
Yes, I just tried it and I am in awe :D
did i do something wrong? the drive is acting as read-only. I imaged it from ubuntu's tool
Ventoy feels like magic. Love it
Is this like Rufus?
Not quite, but it can replace Rufus. Rufus formats the drive and extracts the content of the image to the drive, so every time you need a new bootable something, you'd need to format your drive and extract the image again using Rufus.
Whereas with Ventoy, you just format it once, and then you just directly copy whatever ISO/VHD/WIM etc file directly to the drive, and it can boot from the selected image via a boot menu. So not only does this support having multiple images on one drive, it greatly simplifies the complexity of creating bootable USBs, and saves time since you don't have to format every time. So you could have your own all-in-one USB toolkit with your favorite Linux distros, rescue/recovery ISOs, Windows, backup image files of your HDD that you could boot into directly etc, all on a single drive.
I see... cool. Good to see new FOSS projects
Does it support SteamOS? Earlier this year I couldn't get it to work
Did you download the ISO version of the Zip file?
There's an ISO? I could only find a zip file with a bz2 inside
Hmm, looks like either the ISO has been discontinued, or I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Anyways, if your intention was to try out SteamOS on a PC (or other handhelds), then a better option would be ChimeraOS, which is a community-made SteamOS with more features and better hardware support, and there's also Bazzite which is even more tweaked with goodies.
No, it was for upgrading the m.2 drive on my deck. Ended up creating a bootable usb instead, but thank you anyways!