| David Collins via plug on 4 Aug 2022 21:23:14 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Ventoy USB installer/builder tool |
This seems really useful. I have a few external USB drive enclosures that provide this same functionality as part of the drive firmware. The ISO to use is selectable using an LED panel on the front of the drive enclosure. It would be great to have the same functionality in a smaller USB flash drive. --- David Collins dave@cyberpunkjedi.com ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, August 4th, 2022 at 8:52 PM, JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote: > This is adapted from an email at work because I thought it would be of interest to a lot of folks here. > > See also: > * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventoy > * https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy > > --- Begin adapted from Pat's email: --- > > If you build hardware devices a lot, and find yourself carrying around 5 or 6 different USB sticks, because you have to build 5 or 6 different types of device, then do I have the tool for you... > > From https://ventoy.net/: > “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.” > > I currently have a USB stick with 4 different versions of ESXi, as well as OEL-7, Linux Mint 21, Windows Server 2022 (don’t judge!), and Windows 11 (really don’t judge!). I can now build all of those different devices with just one USB stick. > > I like it better than Rufus for these reasons: > * Ventoy has native client for: Linux, MacOS, and Windows(7+), whereas Rufus is Windows only. > * To install a new ISO onto the drive, with Ventoy you just copy it on there. > * If you don’t like default exfat partition, you can re-format to: ntfs, vfat, udf, ext4 (or 2 or 3), or xfs > > I like it better than Balena Etcher for these reasons: > * Etcher is exactly just a DD from the ISO to the Drive, so why would I need it? (make the DD easier, I guess) > * Etcher does not allow a writeable partition to store non ISO files. > > Both Etcher and Rufus only deal with one ISO at a time. So you’re carrying multiple sticks. This may not be the fix-all tool for everything, but I find it very useful and very cool. > > --- end --- > > I can't speak to the Windows stuff or tools he talks about, but I will certainly give this a try some time. > > Later, > JP > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- > JP Vossen, CISSP | http://www.jpsdomain.org/ | http://bashcookbook.com/ > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug