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[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 month ago (4 children)

four programs to make Linux boot media

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

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] blitzed@noauthority.social 8 points 1 month ago

@AlligatorBlizzard @JustMarkov

Only FOUR ISO's?

I forget the number, but I maxed out a 32GB flash drive with an absurd amount of ISO's *LOL*

Wowzerz, this new external NVMe I need to format, how many ISO's can I shoehorn onto 1TB, and the boot speeds will probably blow my mind \0/

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 :)

!veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] mle86@feddit.org 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] 7eter@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only 4? Those are rookie numbers

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Need a bigger dongle.

[–] Drusenija@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month 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?)

[–] Drusenija@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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