Me in the corner with netboot.xyz: “I am four parallel universes ahead of you”
Chaotic Evil : MicroSD cards
If you have a dvd drive in your PC, you are officially old. I have one, blu ray even. Haven’t used it in years. It’s not even wired up atm.
I have an optical drive in 3 of my machines. I’m not old
What’s ventoy?
a thing you install in a usb stick that allows you to have multiple bootable isos
like you can have the mint and arch isos on the same drive and etc
Oh, I always partitioned when I needed to do that. This seems easier though, thanks!
Is it like Rufus but fancier?
Ventoy is an OS.
It’s a live Linux that boots from the USB stick you format/image with the ventoy tool. The rest of the space on the USB stick is configured to be essentially a standard USB drive.
The live Linux’s sole purpose is to boot another image stored on the USB stick.So, once you have "ventoy"d a usb stick, you can plonk gparted live iso, Ubuntu, Debian, Eos, W10, W11… whatever isos you want. When you boot from that USB stick, you get the ventoy menu screen and select the iso you want it to continue to boot.
Basically, a bootloader on a usb stick
Ventoy is just the grub bootloader.
Ventoy should become more popular with sysadmin as having your entire recovery stack on a single usb is a good quality of life change
Oh yeh, saved my skin a few times.
And you can use it like a normal USB stick once your OS is up, so you can have some installers on there to speed things up
