• adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    with a ventoy usb stick, all you have to do is copy bootable .iso over. that’s it. you get a menu at boot to pick one.

    it’s extremely convenient.

    • HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      This is the main reason I use Ventoy.

      I have a small external drive and I just dump multiple ISO files on it and then select whichever one I want at boot, I don’t have to keep formatting and making new bootable drives.

      • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        You can put them all on one USB instead of trying to remember which color thumb drive has which version of which distro… nice.

        • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          the iso don’t even all need to be on the same ventoy, either… since you can browse other disks and boot .iso off those, too.

      • towerful@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        It does mean you have to repackage isos if you want to include/update files.
        For example, it made an automated.xml file for windows install a lot more complicated. But now I have a very nicely scripted iso builder for customised windows installations (I work in the events industry, so things like digital signage and show machines can be 95% configured before I even have to interact with it).
        It’s still windows, but it’s now hands free from iso boot to being able to use it with the software and settings I want.

        • HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Ventoy, as far as I know, uses image files only, so if you are making changes to your files then my best guess is you will need to update the ISO or rebuild it.

          I mainly use it for distro hopping, I will download the latest version of a Linux distro to give it a try. Got quite a few on my bootable drive. So I never update any files other than replacing the ISO I had been using for a certain distro.

          I think Ventoy would work in your case if you needed to carry around more than one version of the automated Windows install you are using.