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funbreaker ,
@funbreaker@kbin.run avatar

I like Ventoy because I'm an ISO hoarder but if the task needs a dedicated USB, then I'll open Etcher.

briongloid ,
@briongloid@aussie.zone avatar

I generally use the Raspberry Pi Imager, It works just as well with USB’s as TF cards.

GitHub repo

oo1 ,

dd

SexualPolytope ,
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I do use Ventoy, but a more “traditional” alternative that I like is Popsicle. Super lightweight, and works very well. Some cases do require a dedicated USB, where Ventoy won’t work, at least not without trickery (e.g. anything with persistent storage).

Thrickles ,

Great suggestions. The Ventoy bros are weird. Just use what works for you.

BCsven ,

Nice thing about GNOME DE is it comes with Gnome Disks. Select device, click the restore image button and point to the ISO

Ziglin ,

Or you could just install it on any other system with Wayland or x11.

Gparted works fine for me, so that’s what I use.

Aatube ,

It's also an old and jumbled-up format paralleling .gif in a surprising amount of ways, including being never intended for its primary usage, still being popular, and newer formats proving much better.

JustMarkov ,

four programs to make Linux boot media

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

atomkarinca ,

wow, really wow.

i saw veronica talk about ventoy weirdos on mastodon, and here you are.

Telorand ,

Also, Ventoy doesn’t work on all hardware. Meanwhile, the typical options work just fine.

JustMarkov , (edited )

Ventoy weirdos? Ventoy is just a solid and convenient program to create live usbs. What’s the problem with it?

atomkarinca ,

because this video is a beginners guide and ventoy is irrelevant for that topic, yet here you are still talking about it.

JustMarkov ,

No, it is. How could it be simplier? Install Ventoy and then just drag 'n drop your ISOs to usb drive. Why Rufus is beginner friendly and Ventoy is not?

rockSlayer ,

Only 4? Those are rookie numbers

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Found the Ventoy bro /s

blitzed ,
@blitzed@noauthority.social avatar

@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 ,

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 the linked website can be subscribed to from here :)

!veronicaexplains

JustMarkov , (edited )

www.ventoy.net/en/doc_search_path.html

tl;dr: create a .ventoyignore file inside the folder you want Ventoy not to scan.

mle86 ,

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.

TheFool ,
@TheFool@infosec.pub avatar

I really don’t get why I should use anything else than dd

julianh ,

Fear?

TheFool ,
@TheFool@infosec.pub avatar

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/a82071db-0b00-4e68-bf78-978d48a45fe6.jpeg

jaxiiruff ,

Not everyone likes to use commands for something as trivial as this, its nice to press a couple buttons and wait for it to be done vs learning how dd works and what arguments to use etc.

foudinfo ,

My favorite way to create a boot media is simply to use cat. No arguments, no shenanigans just a cat into the device :

cat debian.iso > /dev/sda

neodc ,
@neodc@sh.itjust.works avatar

Replace cat with pv to get a progress bar for free

jaxiiruff ,

Fedora Media Writer is the best, I hardly use BalenaEtcher but its good too incase the former doesnt work

Interstellar_1 ,
@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Does it work for any distro other than fedora tho?

jaxiiruff ,

Yeah I wish it had a different name but it works for every distro via flatpak. I like using it that way but im sure it works well as a package for most distros.

possiblylinux127 ,

It even works on Windows

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