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s0: Soldering Sorceress

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.

ventoy.net

20 comments
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@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.

Peter

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

Dandelion

@s0 ooh, I love the sound of this

Alan Harper

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

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.

aburka 🫣 #SaveChandra

@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.

: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

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.

Niklas

@s0 it's cool, but it's a bit difficult to use with Secure Boot

hobbsc

@s0 Ventoy is awesome and more people need to know about it for sure!

hobbsc

@s0 Upgrading it is dead simple, too

coldclimate

@s0 well that looks excellent, thank you

Harry

@s0 found out about it the other week, you can install windows from it! (Making a bootable windows USB is a pain on linux)

ianto

@s0 bishbosh. tidy. bangin. thx.

MagicLike | #AfDVerbotJetzt

@s0 already using this on my 256 GB bootstick :nkouwu: (no I don't have a problem, I promise)

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