General recommendation to all: Use Ventoy on your USB-drives instead of Etcher or even burning DVD's

[jofewi]

I would like to make a recommendation to all users of this Linux ISO. There is https://www.ventoy.net . What it does is it make your USB drive bootable but also keep it usable for everyday use. This is really important these days because if you go to a supermarket, the cheapest USB drives you get have a size of 64GB or more. You break nearly all of their usability when you use Balena Etcher, dd or any other equal tool to just write one single ISO to the first few memory parts of the USB-drive.

What ventoy does:
It reformats the USB drive to exfat to be usable by all OS. It write then into the bootloader part of the drive itself. The USB-drive is then named to "Ventoy" so that when you attach it to the computer, you know there is Ventoy in the bootloader part of it.
Then you simply copy ISO files to the drive like any other file. Your usb-drive stay fully usable for everyday use and have the additional functionality of booting ISO files when you boot from it.

It looks then like this

[William Hast]

I use it, excellent option. Used to use MultiSystem but it became more of a
problem than
a solution, and I found Ventoy which has worked out VERY well.

On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 7:56 AM jofewi jofewi@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

I would like to make a recommendation to all users of this Linux ISO.
There is https://www.ventoy.net . What it does is it make your USB drive
bootable but also keep it usable for everyday use. This is really important
these days because if you go to a supermarket, the cheapest USB drives you
get have a size of 64GB or more. You break nearly all of their usability
when you use Balena Etcher, dd or any other equal tool to just write one
single ISO to the first few memory parts of the USB-drive.

What ventoy does:
It reformats the USB drive to exfat to be usable by all OS. It write then
into the bootloader part of the drive itself. The USB-drive is then named
to "Ventoy" so that when you attach it to the computer, you know there is
Ventoy in the bootloader part of it.
Then you simply copy ISO files to the drive like any other file. Your
usb-drive stay fully usable for everyday use and have the additional
functionality of booting ISO files when you boot from it.

It looks then like this

General recommendation to all: Use Ventoy on your USB-drives instead of
Etcher or even burning DVD's
https://sourceforge.net/p/dragonos-focal/discussion/general/thread/5f26279a11/?limit=25#f873

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