Once done, just copy your ISO files across to the drive, reboot and select your chosen boot disk from the list. Select your device from the dropdown menu and click Install to wipe it clean and place Ventoy on it. Windows users should download and extract the program, then launch Ventoy2Disk.exe, choosing to run it if the SmartScreen filter pops up. Since its initial release, for example, Ventoy has added official support for over 300 ISO images, developed a plug-in model to facilitate more complex needs, such as persistence support for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and elementaryOS live images, and widened its overall compatibility – for example, to support Secure Boot mode (although this was hit and miss in our experience).įor the average user though, this is overkill. It’s elegantly simple, but there’s a lot of ongoing work behind the scenes. Once Ventoy is set up on your flash drive, just copy the boot image files to the drive, reboot and Ventoy will allow you to select which one you wish to launch from its own boot menu. The larger the flash drive, the more boot media you can install on it.īetter still, there’s no complicated image-writing procedures involved. Instead of five, six or however many boot discs you need, everything is stored on a single flash drive. Ventoy is a brilliantly conceived – and executed – fix to all of this. Open a drawer and unless you’ve labelled them all, which drive contains what boot media? Not to mention the faff involved in writing new images or burning new discs when the boot media gets an update. Aside from the expense of burning discs or investing in more and more flash drives, there’s the question of clutter. 3.3.How many boot discs or flash drives do you own? It’s possible to build up quite a collection, from Linux live CDs and antivirus rescue discs to boot media for apps as diverse as drive imaging to data recovery.

So, we must make sure to back up the drive before installing Ventoy on it. -i installs Ventoy on the specified disk, which is /dev/sdbĭuring the installation, Ventoy reminds us that the data will be lost.

-L assigns a label to the data drive of the USB disk, which is “ Ventoy” in our case.

Install Ventoy to /dev/sdb successfully finished. So, let’s install Ventoy to our USB disk first: $ /opt/ventoy-1.0.94/Ventoy2Disk.sh -g -L Ventoy -i /dev/sdbĪll the data on the disk /dev/sdb will be lost!!!Ĭreate partitions on /dev/sdb by parted in GPT style. For our use case, we’ll stick with the CLI version. Ventoy comes with a GUI, WebUI, and a CLI front-end.

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