![]() Sure, it boots, but it is unusable for anything else, even flashing a different image, unless I clean it up with GParted first. One thing I hate the most about GNOME project is the fact that starting with version 3, they been systematically destroying their utility apps.Ĭalculator button layout has become a ridiculous mess, setting Alt + Shift to switch keyboard layout requires a 3 rd party tweak tool, and my biggest gripe: the “startup disk creator” has been completely boarked!īack in 2007 I was able to use GNOME 2’s built in tool to create a persistent live USB stick for a friend in need with just a couple of clicks, while simultaneously preserving the files he already had on that USB drive!įast forward to 2021 and all I get is a thin GUI wrapper for dd command, which not only does not allow creating a persistent installation, but also converts any USB drive in to a 2GB DVD messing up partitioning and even sector size! It supports GNU/Linux, BSD, and even Windows ISO files!.You can put as many ISO files as will fit on the same USB stick and choose which to boot!.You can still use your drive normally to carry other files around!. ![]() You don’t need to “flash” the ISO to the drive – just copy like a regular file!.Key features that make it different from other tools like Etcher or Unetbootin are: Ventoy is a Free Software multi-platform tool that lets you boot ISO files from a USB drive. In case you see that error message on Linux Kamarada 15.Before I get to ranting, here is the quick answer: This is because Ventoy formats the USB drive with the exFAT file system, and support for that file system is not installed out-of-the-box on Linux Kamarada 15.1. Using Linux Kamarada 15.1, an error message was displayed, as you can see above. Install Ventoy to /dev/sdb successfully finished.Īfter a few seconds or minutes, Ventoy finishes installing itself to the USB drive. Rm: cannot remove './tmp_mnt': Device or resource busy Umount: /home/linux/Downloads/ventoy-1.0.17-linux/ventoy-1.0.17/tmp_mnt: target is busy. In addition, you need a Windows or Linux PC to prepare the USB drive.Ĭreate partitions on /dev/sdb by parted in MBR style. To use both images, you need at least an 8GB drive, and so on. ![]() The Windows 10 version 2004 ISO image is 4.9GB. If you are going to use just that image, you need at least a 2GB drive. For instance, the Linux Kamarada 15.1 ISO image is 1.5GB. To use Ventoy, you need a USB drive (be it a USB stick, an external hard drive, a memory card, etc.) that is large enough to hold the ISO images you are going to use. For future reference, to write this text I use this version. The latest release (1.0.17) is just 4 days old, from July 25th. The first release of Ventoy (1.0.0) was made available on April 5th. Ventoy was very useful for me last week, when I installed Windows and Linux on my new SSD Kingston A400, which I received from warranty after the previous one suffered from the SATAFIRM S11 bug. I have been using it to test Linux Kamarada 15.2 Beta. I myself started using Ventoy on the recommendation of a friend. You can find Ventoy very handy if you work on formatting and repairing computers, or if you like to try out different Linux distros. You can also copy other files to drive, so you can continue to use it for other purposes. With Ventoy, you don’t need to format the drive again and again: you can copy and delete ISO images as you wish. Besides that, tools usually prevent the drive from being used for other purposes (it’s not possible to copy other files). That way, you need to reformat the drive every time you want to boot another ISO image. Ventoy supports legacy BIOS and UEFI (with and without secure boot), MBR and GPT partition tables, which makes it kind of universal.Ĭommonly, tools to create bootable USB drives extract the ISO image contents to the drive, allowing just one ISO image to be used at a time.
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