It felt so good man
all praise the ventoy usb
I recently submitted to the Ventoy path, can’t believe it took me so long.
I actually thought I had messed something up after burning it on a USB. The drive mounted an empty folder and I thought, “no way it’s that simple, I don’t just drop the ISOs into the folder do I?”
Yes, you just throw all your ISOs into that folder, unmount, and you’re good to go!
Same here. “Theres a random folder on the USB now but where’s the software to put the ISO in there?”
Now, having used Linux for a some time, it makes sense why it’s just an empty folder. An ISO is just a file, like anything else.
And you can even go a step further and configure it so all the ISOs go into a subdirectory. Then you can still use the USB for other stuff without it becoming a mess. Right now I have the following structure:
├ apps // Lots of portable apps, using the PortableApps system
├ data // For copying files between devices
├ images // ISOs go here, separated into Linux, Windows and Utilities
├ installs // For apps that need to be installed
├ secure // Encrypted Veracrypt store
└ ventoy // Ventoy config
All that on a tiny USB on my keychain and super useful when you’re the IT person for the family.
I tried it but it failed or something and windows just took over again
In the uefi bios make sure Linux is the first option. If that doesn’t work delete windows.
Bring forth the USB of power!!! (insert evil laugh)
I need to get more USB drives in my bag. For no reason.
Can confirm, Ventoy is fantastic! I just keep one 128GB USB drive with a ton of ISOs on it and that does the trick!
What do you have on it? I’ve considered setting one up, but I’m not sure what I’d put on it yet, and I don’t want to do the thing where I make something I never use.
Meanwhile I mount the ISO, copy paste its contents to a ~150 GiB FAT32 partition on my HDD I used for backing up PS3 and then modify grub.cfg so GRUB can pass the correct arguments to Linux kernel.
