Rather than using tools like YUMI and many others to create a multidistro boot usb stick, with Ventoy you can copy over .ISO files and boot from them on a multidistro USB!
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).
x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way.
Most type of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/Unix/VMware/Xen...)
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)!
- Github page for Ventoy
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Ventoy is an Open Source Tool to Create Bootable USB Drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(X)/EFI Files
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(Score: 2) by Revek on Sunday March 07 2021, @11:52PM (2 children)
The problem I have with it is that it doesn't have a persistence option. At least it didn't when I tried it late last year.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by wirelessduck on Monday March 08 2021, @12:23AM (1 child)
Reading the Ventoy home page gives this link:
https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html [ventoy.net]
(Score: 2) by Revek on Monday March 08 2021, @01:36AM
Yeah, its not exactly easy compared to other more mature apps. I have tried it but have little trouble with yumi on windows or multibootusb and multisystem on linux.
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(Score: 0) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 07 2021, @11:58PM (10 children)
Does this thing actually work, or is it like Rufus where you need to engage in trial and error and Linux commands to get it to work? Having fifty-million supported options are great but a learning curve, if present, could also be a big deal. Does it Just Work™?
Also, SN either Slashdotted (Soyled) the first link at this time, or they banned my VPN.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @12:00AM (1 child)
》 Also, SN either Slashdotted (Soyled) the first link at this time, or they banned my VPN.
Occam's Razor says Mossad's fucking with your Internet.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday March 08 2021, @12:08AM
Probably. I just don't give a fuck. The Jews run everything anyway, and nobody likes them. Might as well show them a little honesty.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @12:31AM (4 children)
Didn't you see all the Chinese characters and QQ bullshit at the bottom of their website? Yeah, it's garbage. Fuck the CCP.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @12:35AM (3 children)
It's open source. If you want to chimp out about it, audit it yourself. Otherwise, have a nice day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @02:22AM (2 children)
You've audited all the code on your box and you understand it? You must be one hell of a developer, engineer, or whatever. Definitely not my grandmother or any of the hundreds of thousands of system admins, network engineers, technicians, and general IT staff that totally don't have the time to audit every single fucking piece of code on the internet to determine if it's Chinese crap or not.
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Monday March 08 2021, @06:51PM (1 child)
I believe that open source suffers from the "Bystander Effect [wikipedia.org]" (among other issues). Because there are so many people who possibly could review/audit the code, no single individual is likely to actually do it. Everyone assumes that someone else has done it and that everything is fine, when in fact no one has reviewed it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 10 2021, @06:17AM
(Score: 5, Informative) by sensei_moreh on Monday March 08 2021, @12:32AM (2 children)
It just works. My current Ventoy flash drive contains isos for Windows 10, refind, fossapup, and 32-bit Debian 10 and Fedora 30. All of the isos boot just fine.
Geology - It's not rocket science; it's rock science
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @12:38AM
Thanks for the testimony. Hopefully your positive post will be modded up so people can see it easily.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday March 08 2021, @02:12AM
Good to know - this sounds like exactly what I've been looking for for years
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @12:40AM (1 child)
Longpanda. I've heard that name before. Yes, my memory is coming back now. When I was abducted by that UFO and anal probed, I heard the name "Captain Longpanda".
It's a trap people! Go for the Chinese anal swab, it's less brutal!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @02:56PM
Are you sure about that? Do you really want to walk like a penguin? [dailymail.co.uk]
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @12:44AM
And an hour later I was hungry again... damned Chinese software.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @12:49AM (3 children)
Today's video is mandatory viewing. Terry A. Davis launched into the space of his parent's living room, and went batshit insane.
https://archive.org/download/TerryADavis_TempleOS_Archive/videos/2017/2017-07-12T04:47:05+00:00%20-%2008JewishPig.MP4 [archive.org]
The most compelling video you will ever see, from King Terry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @02:00AM
Or, King Gary. You use so many different names! I see that you're out of jail now?
https://www.wmur.com/article/man-pulled-from-women-s-outhouse-tank/5142933# [wmur.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @06:37AM
You know, I have often seen suggestions for new Moderation categories, some in jest. But, seriously, we need a -10 clinically insane moderation. Seriously.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @08:20PM
choose different videos for your spamming. so lazy!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by aristarchus on Monday March 08 2021, @06:29AM (2 children)
I ask, as a fellow, non-racist, Soylentil, is there a point at which the announcement of a "program", as they used to be known, or an "app", as they currently are known, is in fact an advertisement? To the extent a tool is useful, yes, it deserves to be widely disseminated and adopted, this is the origins of free software. But now? I need this, which sounds like a branded boot manager? Why would I, or any other Soylentil, be so foolish, as to adopt this? Unless upon the recommendation of reliable Soylentils, who are rare these days. Rather than using "YUMI"? Who or what is YUMI? And why should I use Yentil instead? Oh, I am sorry, Ventoy. What ever happened to "lilo"?
(Score: 4, Informative) by RamiK on Monday March 08 2021, @01:37PM (1 child)
It's a GRUB distribution dedicated to USB boot media with special emphasis on contemporary out-of-patent or licensed x86 and/or MIPS hardware support (Zhaoxin, Loongson 2K1000, BYD Loongson 3A4000...) which is generally not available outside China.
Practically speaking, since legacy-x86 support was removed from most western x86 projects, switching over to Chinese hardware might be the only way to run old software on iron in the coming years.
For the sake of discourse, the fact Chinese hobbyists and techies actually put in the time to develop this should give you a data point on the state of the Chinese efforts at hardware independence and how popular those Loongsons and Zhaoxins really are.
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday March 09 2021, @12:07AM
MIPS soon as well: https://liliputing.com/2021/03/mips-technologies-pivots-to-designing-risc-v-processors.html [liliputing.com]
Anyhow, the Ingenic X1830 can be found in the GKD MINI which is a recent product of mass market appeal so any efforts to preserve MIPS from Chinese license holders and the community are to be expected and, really, should be appreciated.
compiling...
(Score: 2) by ledow on Monday March 08 2021, @01:21PM (3 children)
Virtual machines.
Who dual-boots/ USB-boots ANYTHING nowadays?
Even Windows has a built in hypervisor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 08 2021, @01:55PM
>> Even Windows has a built in hypervisor.
Which it no doubt uses to send hypertelemetrics to HQ?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by engblom on Monday March 08 2021, @09:36PM (1 child)
In my work I boot USB very often. Latest today I booted Ubuntu live in a computer where the webcam seemed to be broken. By booting a live disk I could verify it was not driver issue. Also if Windows has been crashing/getting infected and a computer needs to be fully reinstalled or data needs to be moved to a new computer I also boot a USB Linux and copy everything. Then if I need to install a batch of computers I install one and preinstall all programs, then I boot Clonezilla from USB to make an image that I send out to all the other computers. Sometimes people forget their passwords and I need to boot Kali from USB to reset the Windows password.
If this tool is as good as it sounds like I will have plenty of use for it.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Tuesday March 09 2021, @08:08AM
Your problems are all better solved by other tools that are widely available and cost nothing too.
We've all been through using NTPASSWD etc. but if you're using anything vaguely modern it shouldn't be the tool of choice in 2021.
Please tell me that you don't image Windows machines using Clonezilla.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Tuesday March 09 2021, @02:55AM
I keep a USB key on my keychain with several ISOs on it. XP/7/10 LTSB Debian/CentOS - all seem to work fine. It's rare that I actually NEED it, but boy, the few times that I have, I sure do feel like a boss whipping it off of my keychain. B)
FYI: Corsair Survivor shrouded USB drives (thumb drives? Zip drives? Flash drives? Zip disquettes?) are the only portable, writable, USB-interface flash media that can withstand actual daily use for extended periods on a keyring worn at the hip.