atri7
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Post by atri7 on Dec 27, 2020 23:35:50 GMT
Category: Burning Software
Software homepage: www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Ventoy is a cross-platform, open-source utility libburnia libraries; it is used to create bootable USB drives for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the disk time and again; you can just copy the image files to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can place many files on a drive at once, and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. In addition, it can blank CD/DVD(-RW)s, burn and create iso images and audio CDs, and burn personal compositions of data to either CD or DVD.
/end Ventoy is an excellent tool, and having multiple .isos on a single drive can be very useful. I highly recommend it for the App center.
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cooler
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Post by cooler on Dec 28, 2020 13:27:51 GMT
That would be a nice alternative to Rufus.
To be honest I'm reluctant to install chinese software.
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enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Dec 28, 2020 17:42:01 GMT
Yep Ventoy sounds like pretty cool software. Before I heard of it, I'd use dd to write one iso to usb drive.... even if it was 16GB USB flash drive the whole thing had to be used for one ISO. And I had a couple flash drives written with ISOs but they'd never last cuz I'd end up needing to use them for something else so usually just end up writing again and again. I can imagine the benefit of ventoy - oe 16gb flash drive with all the isos I might want to boot, and if I have another one to try, just copy the iso to the flash drive.
Rufus is not avilable for linux, but I think our software center offers xfburn? I dunno if that can be used to write to USB or only disc tho, have not tried it.
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enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Sept 15, 2021 3:06:02 GMT
They just released a linux GUI "installer" now with latest version (1.0.52)! So even easier than before to format USB drives with Ventoy. Not that it was difficult to do command line anyway and since you only have to do it once per USB drive and can keep reusing that usb afterwards, it was usually a one time thing.
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wimc
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Post by wimc on Sept 15, 2021 9:41:39 GMT
Rufus is not avilable for linux, but I think our software center offers xfburn? I dunno if that can be used to write to USB or only disc tho, have not tried it. I use xfburn, its only CD/DVD.
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Post by shedyed on Feb 10, 2022 16:37:02 GMT
I use ventoy primarily for making a multi ISO bootable USB stick, not for burning CD/DVD. Thanks to this, I am back to distro-hopping once again. I had to take out a few images to make room for a Slackware distro with e25. (The unfortunate thing is the trial login for that Slack is root, which makes everything work 100%.) It was prepared by a Swede named OnlyHuman
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