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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
Stefen Auris ( @stefenauris@pawb.social ) English16•2 years agoI love this project so much! Makes it super convenient having all my ISOs on a single drive
NovaPrime ( @NovaPrime@lemmy.ml ) 8•2 years agoLove love love this! Can’t believe I’m just now hearing about it
gibson ( @gibson@sopuli.xyz ) 5•2 years agoVentoy feels like magic. Love it
words_number ( @words_number@programming.dev ) 5•2 years agoIf this works, it’s a game changer!! I would have neede this two days ago xD Will try it later!
ChefKalash ( @ChefKalash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•2 years agoDoes it support SteamOS? Earlier this year I couldn’t get it to work
Did you download the ISO version of the Zip file?
ChefKalash ( @ChefKalash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•2 years agoThere’s an ISO? I could only find a zip file with a bz2 inside
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.
ChefKalash ( @ChefKalash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•2 years agoNo, it was for upgrading the m.2 drive on my deck. Ended up creating a bootable usb instead, but thank you anyways!
thehellrocc ( @thehellrocc@beehaw.org ) English1•2 years agoSteamOS 3 hasn’t been released as an ISO (yet?), but there’s the unofficial HoloISO as a replacement.
ElPussyKangaroo ( @ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id ) English1•2 years agoIs this like Rufus?
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.
ElPussyKangaroo ( @ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id ) English1•2 years agoI see… cool. Good to see new FOSS projects