Computery PSA :boost_requested: If you ever deal with...

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Computery PSA :boost_requested:

If you ever deal with making bootable USBs, get Ventoy! Ventoy is a bootable USB system that you install once (via easy and working commands), and then any time you want to boot an image, you just throw the ISO file directly onto the USB FAT partition.
No repartitioning, no setting bootable flags, no dd, no UEFI detection debugging. It works on UEFI and BIOS.

You just boot to Ventoy, which displays a nice (and themeable) list of all your ISOs, and select which one you want to boot.

No more keychain of 5 bootable USBs for different OSes. No more “damn, I wrote over that installer and now I want to use it again”.

I have one USB stick, with my general data transfer partition, bootable Ventoy, and the ISOs for Mac, windows, five different linux flavours, memtest86+, rescatux, clonezilla, etc.

https://ventoy.net

Like 15 May at 23:18 | Open on cathode.church

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A🐝

@s0 OK that's kind of nice. The fact that it can work with windows too means I can finally get rid of / wipe that one usb that's just gathering dust.

15 May at 23:23 | Open on cathode.church

Thermite Be Giants

@s0 oooh, bookmarking this!

15 May at 23:25 | Open on aus.social

Peter

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@ThermiteBeGiants @s0 I just looked and this project is > 4 years old and how are we only now learning about it?!

15 May at 23:31 | Open on scintilla.social

/dev/rdsk/c5t1d0s2

@s0 TIL, thank you!

16 May at 0:49 | Open on aus.social

Pilum::🌞

@s0 Ty!

16 May at 2:14 | Open on octodon.social

Dandelion

@s0 ooh, I love the sound of this

16 May at 2:51 | Open on mastodon.au

Alan Harper

@s0 holy crap that is what I’m after and I don’t even know it!

16 May at 4:09 | Open on aus.social

lopta

@s0 Hmm... no.

16 May at 4:31 | Open on mastodon.social

Miroslav Kravec

@s0 interesting project.

Though, I'm used to simple `dd` on Linux...

With 64GB USB costing only a little more than 16GB nowadays, this tool might be handy.

16 May at 4:54 | Open on hometech.social

aburka 🫣

@s0 just got Ventoy working here! They don't have a Mac installer, so I put System Rescue on my USB, booted that in copy-to-RAM mode, and then used the Linux installer to turn that same USB into Ventoy.

For whatever reason the "normal" boot method for ISOs doesn't work on my old MacBook Air, but the grub2 option seems reliable.

16 May at 5:09 | Open on hachyderm.io

:projetstodon: Shalien

@s0 Fair warning that some iso are so fucked up they can't be launched with ventoy AND older devices may need a manual enrollment of ventoy UEFI keys

16 May at 5:32 | Open on mastodon.projetretro.io

thunfisch

@s0 Been happily using it for a number of years. I always carry a 64GB dual USB-A/USB-C memory stick with a bunch of ISOs on it on my Keychain. Windows, Ubuntu, Proxmox, Arch, Memtest, Kali and some other weird stuff. Saved my butt a few times already.