• festnt@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      8 months ago

      a thing you install in a usb stick that allows you to have multiple bootable isos

      like you can have the mint and arch isos on the same drive and etc

        • towerful@programming.dev
          10·
          8 months ago

          Ventoy is an OS.
          It’s a live Linux that boots from the USB stick you format/image with the ventoy tool. The rest of the space on the USB stick is configured to be essentially a standard USB drive.
          The live Linux’s sole purpose is to boot another image stored on the USB stick.

          So, once you have "ventoy"d a usb stick, you can plonk gparted live iso, Ubuntu, Debian, Eos, W10, W11… whatever isos you want. When you boot from that USB stick, you get the ventoy menu screen and select the iso you want it to continue to boot.

          Basically, a bootloader on a usb stick

          • DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml
            3·
            8 months ago

            Ventoy should become more popular with sysadmin as having your entire recovery stack on a single usb is a good quality of life change

            • towerful@programming.dev
              2·
              8 months ago

              Oh yeh, saved my skin a few times.
              And you can use it like a normal USB stick once your OS is up, so you can have some installers on there to speed things up

    • Justin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      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.

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