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Found the Ventoy bro /s
Only 4? Those are rookie numbers
Need a bigger dongle.
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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wow, really wow.
i saw veronica talk about ventoy weirdos on mastodon, and here you are.
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because this video is a beginners guide and ventoy is irrelevant for that topic, yet here you are still talking about it.
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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.
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?)
That good advice, thank you, will definitely give that a shot!
Great suggestions. The Ventoy bros are weird. Just use what works for you.
dd, or cat with a shell redirect are all you need to write that iso.
My trouble with dd is all the flags I need to remember to make it fast and more convenient.
dd if=file of=/dev/device oflag=direct status=progress bs=1Mis there anything I’m missing?dd can be soooo much faster too. But like you, I always forget the tags. I should make an alias sometime…
The video description says it’s aimed at Windows users, dd and cat have no power there
oflag=direct
What does this do?
oflag=direct
Prevents the writes from piling up in the cache. dd will report the transfer is done when the writes have been cached so this setting prevents dd from exiting until the data has been written completely to the block device.
Use
conv=fsyncThis ensures the cache is written before dd exits, but doesn’t necessarily write to disk directly. This means that, for small files, dd can finish release its hold on the input file quicker
Nice thing about GNOME DE is it comes with Gnome Disks. Select device, click the restore image button and point to the ISO
Or you could just install it on any other system with Wayland or x11.
Gparted works fine for me, so that’s what I use.
Gparted is awesome. But probably overwhelming for newbies just looking to burn an iso to USB. Raspberry PI Image Writer works very simply also.
I don’t burn ISOs often enough to need a dedicated ventoy drive, or to remember how to use the DD command, so Impression is generally what I use. I generally prefer Libadwaita/GTK4 apps that look at home on my system.
Does impression support Windows ISOs? Or only ISOHybrid (what Linux ISOs use so you can add them)
I have no idea, I’ve not had to install windows in a while. From a quick search I see conflicting info…
A user reported it didn’t work, then the dev said he tested it and it works fine
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I’ve used ventoy to set up a bootable USB with Mint & MX options. It allowed me to set the Mint with persistence. The MX has issues with persistence.
How to set up reusable boot with dd I don’t know.
MX has its own built in tool to make a bootable USB with persistence
Will have to check it out.
Thanks
I curious because I don’t have the skill to test it myself but can you just manually copy everything to USB it’s just work?
No, the drive needs a boot partition for the bios to know there is something to be booted on the drive.
Most Linux ISO’s do properly include the partitions in the ISO, so you can clone the iso to a drive and that should work, using dd for example. But just copying the files won’t work.
iirc windows iso’s did use to support just creating a fat32 partition and moving all the files over, not sure how they managed that. But now the international ISO for win 11 has a file that’s more than the max 4Gb allowed by fat32, so you can’t do that anymore either.
In the general case, no, but there are some rare specific cases where that does work.
If you’re trying to produce Linux media that will boot on a single-board computer that has an onboard bootloader, like a Pi 4, you can indeed just partition the target medium and copy the files manually (been there, done that, working with a custom Gentoo install with no ISO).
If the bootloader has to be on the target medium (as it would for a desktop or laptop), then that won’t work unless you also do a manual bootloader install after copying everything. Not impossible, but at that point you’re hitting the level of complexity where it’s easier to figure out the correct
ddcommand.(As for Windows? Don’t even bother. It hates being worked on with anything but its own tools.)
Mark Shuttleworth’s Startup Disk Creator
Another program that works on Windows, which I prefer to Balena Etcher, but less so than Rufus: unetbootin
