User:Wuseman/Ventoy

This guide will show you how to use Ventoy wich is a A New Bootable USB Solution

Ventoy support installation to local disk
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.
You can copy many files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them (screenshot).
You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disks and boot them.
x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way.
Most types of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/ChromeOS/Unix/VMware/Xen...)

Download Ventoy

root #wget https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases/download/v1.0.91/ventoy-1.0.91-linux.tar.gz

Extract Ventoy

root #tar -xvzf ventoy-1.0.91-linux.tar.gz

Install Ventoy on USB

Warning
Be careful, this will erase all data on boot device

root #bash ventoy-1.0.91/Ventoy2Disk.sh -i /dev/sdaN

Ventoy Webui

Install ventoy and prepare liveusb via webui

This is the easier option, if your machine physically supports it. To proceed, plug an ethernet cable into the target machine now, and hook it up to your network (into the back of your cable or ADSL router etc.). Wait for a minute or so (for DHCP to allocate you an address), then (at the keyboard of your target PC) enter:

Note
Please execute VenmtoyWeb.sh inside ventoy directory when using webui

root #

cd ventoy-1.0.91 && bash VentoyWeb.sh

===============================================================
  Ventoy Server 1.0.91 is running ...
  Please open your browser and visit http://127.0.0.1:24680
===============================================================

################## Press Ctrl + C to exit #####################

Browse to: http://127.0.0.1:24680 and install ventoy from browser.

Copy ISO file to USB

Note
It is possible to download directly to mounted path (ex. wget -O ... / curl -o ...)

root #mkdir /mnt/ventoy

root #mount /dev/sdN1 /mnt/ventoy

root #wget https://example.gentoo.org/install-amd64-minimal-*.iso

root #cp install-amd64-minimal-*.iso /mnt/ventoy/

root #reboot

External Links

You can modify themes and much much more, please visit ventoy documentation https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html for more info