Ventoy is an opensource tool to create a universal bootable USB drive for ISOs and other image files. With Ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over to create a bootable USB for different images, you just need to copy the image files to the USB drive and boot them directly via a dynamic menu.

New in v1.0.95:

  • Drag to resize Ventoy2Disk.exe dialog width.
  • Fix a bug when booting veket_24.
  • Fix a bug when booting the latest UOS server ISO.
  • New distro support: vanilladpup
  • New distro support: FydeOS 17
  • languages.json update
  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’m looking into creating a bootable USB on Linux with GParted, Clonezilla and a few other tools. Can you do that with Ventoy?

    Most people are talking about having a multiple distributions on one USB stick, but I just wanted to be sure you can also do that with these tools 😇

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      Not quite, but it can replace Rufus. Rufus formats the drive and extracts the content of the image to the drive, so every time you need a new bootable something, you’d need to format your drive and extract the image again using Rufus.

      Whereas with Ventoy, you just format it once, and then you just directly copy whatever ISO/VHD/WIM etc file directly to the drive, and it can boot from the selected image via a boot menu. So not only does this support having multiple images on one drive, it greatly simplifies the complexity of creating bootable USBs, and saves time since you don’t have to format every time. So you could have your own all-in-one USB toolkit with your favorite Linux distros, rescue/recovery ISOs, Windows, backup image files of your HDD that you could boot into directly etc, all on a single drive.

        • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzOP
          3·
          1 year ago

          Hmm, looks like either the ISO has been discontinued, or I can’t seem to find it anywhere.

          Anyways, if your intention was to try out SteamOS on a PC (or other handhelds), then a better option would be ChimeraOS, which is a community-made SteamOS with more features and better hardware support, and there’s also Bazzite which is even more tweaked with goodies.