Re: [PLUG] Ventoy USB installer/builder tool

[Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Wow!  This is really useful.  I never heard of it before. Thanks, JP!

On 8/4/22 20:52, JP Vossen via plug 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
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