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  • Ventoy

    From Patch@954:895/49 to All on Tuesday, December 12, 2023 09:36:30
    Ijust discovered this wonderful utility, and wanted to share.

    Are you like me, and have several OS boot sticks on different thumb drives? Ventoy is something for you, then.

    Prepare a single thumb drive as a Ventoy boot device, copy the ISO onto that drive, and when you boot from it you will be presented with the choice of OS's that you copied onto it.

    Mind. Blown.

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  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to Patch on Friday, December 15, 2023 09:41:44
    On 12/12/2023 9:43 AM, Patch wrote to All:

    I just discovered this wonderful utility and wanted to share.

    Are you like me, and have several OS boot sticks on different thumb drives? Ventoy is something for you, then.

    Prepare a single thumb drive as a Ventoy boot device, copy the ISO onto that drive, and when you boot from it you will be presented with the choice of OS's
    that you copied onto it.

    Mind. Blown.

    Looks interesting. I am always being asked to update someone's computer to make it a
    Chromebook or whatever. I also like the distro page that it references: https://distrowatch.com. I might give it a try. My only worry is that it looks like a
    Chinese product.

    Mike Dippel

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  • From Patch@954:895/49 to Mike Dippel on Monday, January 15, 2024 09:42:41
    One of the pitfalls of Ventoy seems to be when you setup the USB on a Linux box, Windows doesn't like to recognize it. I had to create a second one for use with Windows NTFS environments and have one for EXT4.

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  • From DaveW@954:895/57 to Patch on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 03:29:50
    Re: Ventoy
    By: Patch to All on Tue Dec 12 2023 09:36 am

    Hello,
    I have messed with Ventoy and liked it. I like the idea of being able to boot multiple OS's from a single USB device..


    DaveW
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