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Create A Bootable USB Drive By Simply Copying The ISO To The USB With Ventoy (Linux And Windows)

 

Above is a link to some information about Ventoy in another thread here at Scot's. I thought this useful tool deserved a thread of its own as it is such a useful tool.

 

Ventoy Updated to Support Local Disk Image Booting

 

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Since it’s initial release back in 2020, Ventoy added some nice features such as support for IMG disk impages, support for GPT paritions or bypassing Windows 11 requirements during installation.

Today, Ventoy was updated to v1.0.66 and introduces yet another useful feature. The new version of Ventoy gives you the option to boot from local disk images.

 

Found this interesting snippet of information over at funkyspacemonkey.com. Looks like Ventoy is going from strength to strength. more information over at their main site,

 

Ventoy Boot Image Files In Local Disk

 

It seems easy enough to use. You download your .iso then for linux,

 

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Create vlnk file for image file in local disk

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Run sudo bash VentoyVlnk.sh -c xxx.iso in terminal. The vlnk file will be created in the current directory where you run the script.

 

  • 2.2 Copy the vlnk file to Ventoy USB and boot
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After vlnk file created, just copy it to Ventoy USB and boot it. You can put the vlnk file in the root or some subdirectory, no difference with normal image files.
When you boot the vlnk file it will actually boot the corresponding image file in the local disk.

 

Longpanda's GitHub page has extensive information and guides on all aspects of this fine tool.

 

https://github.com/ventoy

 

 

Happy distro hopping folks. 😎

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I was installing a linux.iso to a flash drive yesterday, but not with Ventoy.  Thanks for the post.  I might give this a try.

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I use Ventory a lot. Have several OS's installed on an old SSD that i have a USB connector for. 

I have run Fedora , Kali Linux, Windows10 PE from it and have a partition setup to keep static files, like installation software for various tools.

The only ISO that I have wanted to run from Ventoy that I have not been able to is SpinRite.

 

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17 hours ago, crp said:

I use Ventory a lot. Have several OS's installed on an old SSD that i have a USB connector for. 

I have run Fedora , Kali Linux, Windows10 PE from it and have a partition setup to keep static files, like installation software for various tools.

The only ISO that I have wanted to run from Ventoy that I have not been able to is SpinRite.

 

 

My initiall test run two years ago also had a couple of distros that did not boot from Ventoy.

 

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Arch

Fedora SOS

Fenix

They booted to a useable live os.

 

Porteous KDE

Pepermint OS

Did not boot at all.

 

Slacko Puppy

Booted but quit with errors.

 

Keeping Ventoy on a usb/ssd is a neat idea. You could almost keep a copy of every distro out there on a 120 GB ssd.🙃

 

I came across another program that does even more than Ventoy but it looks a tad more complicated. You can even run Ventoy from it or add it to a current Ventoy install.

 

Easy2Boot – Make a versatile, multiboot Legacy\UEFI USB drive for free (includes Ventoy)

 

Add Easy2Boot to a Ventoy USB drive

 

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By adding Easy2Boot to an existing Ventoy USB drive you can add E2B which has these extra Legacy-BIOS features:

  • Boot DOS images
  • Boot and install XP from ISO with Mass Storage Drivers
  • Install Win98/Win2K
  • Generic method of legacy-booting Linux ISOs which Ventoy may not support
  • Use SDI_CHOCO to automate Legacy Windows 7/8/10/11 installs with drivers and apps
  • Run PassPass to bypass Windows User Account passwords (legacy Windows)
  • Access a password protected Windows account using UtilMan automated method

 

 

The developer of Easy2Boot sounds a very interesting and decent chap and his about page is well worth a quick read.

 

https://easy2boot.xyz/about/However, if you would like to learn more about Ventoy and how to use the ventoy.json configuration file, learn what are the best options to use when creating your Ventoy drive, learn how to boot ISO and other payload files from Partition 3 of the Ventoy drive, run Linux files with persistence, automate the installation of Windows, install Windows 11 to a non-TPM system, create your own themes, etc, then it's all here!
Details are included on how to remove the Ventoy version menu string without needing to recompile are also included.

 

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Hi 

My name is Steve Si (Contact Me) and I am an experienced (i.e. ageing 60+) Computer Development Engineer from the UK. I was made redundant in 2011 (when my company stopped building PCs) and so I am currently unemployed/retired.  

 

This website is funded out of my own pocket and the ads and eBook sales help towards the website costs.

 

Over the last 30+ years, I have been involved in most things to do with PCs in an OEM/System Builder company, e.g. modifying firmware, writing functional test software in x86 assembler, designing circuits and PCBs, developing apps and BIOS level (x86 assembler) backup/restore software, memory test s/w, hardware and software validation, mainboard and system validation, writing boot managers, developing fully automated production test software and Windows installation processes used to install onto over 1 million new computers in the factory, writing technical knowledge base articles and loads more stuff that is too boring to mention and I can’t even remember now! 

 

I have been interested in USB Flash drives ever since they first appeared (their small size, speed and large storage capacity is amazing compared to the storage media that was available 30 years ago!). 

 

I am particularly impressed with the way he gives credit to all the folk whose work has helped him to develop Easy2Boot. He has written several books which are apparently well regarded. The one which may be of interest to Ventoy users who wish to try out the many features of Ventoy is

 

Getting started with Ventoy v1.14 (for Ventoy 1.0.86)

 

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Ventoy is the latest USB multiboot solution. Easy2Boot includes Ventoy but this eBook can be used for 'official' Ventoy USB drives or for 'Ventoy for Easy2Boot'.

 

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However, if you would like to learn more about Ventoy and how to use the ventoy.json configuration file, learn what are the best options to use when creating your Ventoy drive, learn how to boot ISO and other payload files from Partition 3 of the Ventoy drive, run Linux files with persistence, automate the installation of Windows, install Windows 11 to a non-TPM system, create your own themes, etc, then it's all here!
Details are included on how to remove the Ventoy version menu string without needing to recompile are also included.

 

All a tad too complicated for me so I will stick to just playing around with distro hopping from Ventoy. happy hopping folks. 😎

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