I recently discovered ventoy and it’s so useful. Don’t have to flash isos anymore and can have a whole iso library. So useful.
Next time you feel the need to tell everyone how useful something is it might be good to include what it actually does so others do not have to google it themselves.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
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 (screenshot). You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disks and boot them. x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way. Most types of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/ChromeOS/Unix/VMware/Xen…)
If you now find out about iventoy 🙊
Never need a USB Stick anymore 😁
Worth pointing out that while ventoy is open source, iventoy is not. Might be important to some people.
Code is on Github You can download the source there
That site gives me sketchy vibes. Lol maybe because one of the nav items is just named “Document”
It’s probably an issue of English not being the first language, or of translation. It’s obviously a link to Documentation, which is a pretty safe assumption when you see a nav item named Document. You could have confirmed this yourself by simply following the link.
The sketch factor on this software is over 9000. I would never run it
Why do you say that? The website is a little ugly in parts (the colored text bulleted list near the bottom) but it doesn’t look “sketch” at all.
And if you can get past some poorly designed home page for a project, they publish the source with supposedly 101 contributors.
Yeah, I like having a few isos on Ventoy for live booting from random PCs for troubleshooting. Very convenient being able to have multiple architectures, DEs, versions of distros to boot from on one drive.
What’s so useful having about an iso library? Isn’t it just hoarding of outdated images very quickly? What’s even the use case?
I am very curious, because I don’t see it. You usually don’t install so many different machines in any timeframe where it might be useful. For recovery you just pick one and you really don’t need it often either.
You can thin out the obsolete ISOs and have well-used tools like DBAN, a partition editor, Clonezilla, etc. Make some of the ISOs live distributions and you have a way to repair a failed installation.
When I did supoort I would usually have a number of cds for different tasks. Ubcd, winpe, knoppix , a specialized winpe to restore from synology backups etc.
Some of the modern tools don’t require it. Backups are easier than ever etc.
Ventoy isn’t a new concept. I have a usb drive with a bunch of isos. Just don’t have much use. Because I’ll burn an iso when I need to with Rufus.
Just because almost nobody need to have an iso library.
