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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (5 children)

four programs to make Linux boot media

Or you can use one Ventoy to make a boot media with four Linux ISOs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Found the Ventoy bro /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What are some recommendations for putting Ventoy on your main USB (with other contents instead of just ISOs)? I need to find the guide I saw, it mentioned some configurations to prevent it from searching every directory for ISOs

Also while I'm having some federation issues, the linked website can be subscribed to from here :)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_search_path.html

tl;dr: create a .ventoyignore file inside the folder you want Ventoy not to scan.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Alternatively when creating the ventoy installation you can chose to leave X amount of space behind the ventoy partition and then create your own data partition there afterwards. You lose the advantage of "dynamically" sharing the available space between ventoy and your data, but with the seperqte partition you can use whatever filesystem you like for your data, and there is a clear seperation between ventoy and your other data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I never really noticed performance decrease. But still this is great to know - thank you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Only 4? Those are rookie numbers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Need a bigger dongle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have Ventoy on a USB stick, tried to use it recently for DBAN and it didn't work, is there any way to get around that these days? Haven't looked into it recently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It works for Ultimate Boot CD, which includes DBAN and a lot of other fun stuff.

I play with retro hardware and Ventoy has also worked for me with some weird old isos that even Rufus didn't work with (XP/Server 2003 multidisc from eXPerience that uses a Linux bootloader?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That good advice, thank you, will definitely give that a shot!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

wow, really wow.

i saw veronica talk about ventoy weirdos on mastodon, and here you are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Also, Ventoy doesn't work on all hardware. Meanwhile, the typical options work just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ventoy weirdos? Ventoy is just a solid and convenient program to create live usbs. What's the problem with it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

because this video is a beginners guide and ventoy is irrelevant for that topic, yet here you are still talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No, it is. How could it be simplier? Install Ventoy and then just drag 'n drop your ISOs to usb drive. Why Rufus is beginner friendly and Ventoy is not?