Ventoy iso bootloader EASY installs from usb for any iso os file

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  1. sdowney717
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    win10 PRO on 5 PC's and Linux mint
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    Ventoy iso bootloader EASY installs from usb for any iso os file


    Releases . ventoy/Ventoy . GitHub

    Ventoy

    All you do is run ventoy to install it to the usb drive as a bootloader.
    Then copy as many ISO install files as you want on the usb.

    ventoy boots and shows a menu of the iso files, pick one and it will boot the iso and install whatever OS you selected.

    I did this after struggling to get a 32 bit windows 7 iso to boot from a usb drive on a particular stubborn intel server board..
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  3. Bree
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    +1 for Ventoy.

    My USB has, in addition to several Windows install ISOs, a Linux Live ISO, a couple of Macrium rescue ISOs and the bootable ISO of MiniTools Partition Wizard 9.1.
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  4. sdowney717
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    Bree said:
    +1 for Ventoy.

    My USB has, in addition to several Windows install ISOs, a Linux Live ISO, a couple of Macrium rescue ISOs and the bootable ISO of MiniTools Partition Wizard 9.1.
    its a great tool for sure!
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  6. EdTittel
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    I've been a fan since May 2020, when I first came across it. Today, I named it as one of the three best Windows 10 tools of 2020: Top 3 2020 Windows 10 Utilities in my end-of-year blog post. Best thing that's happened to bootable media in forever, in fact.
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  7. Fabler2
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    Thanks for the heads up @sdowney717
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  8. Paul Black
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    Hello @EdTittel,

    EdTittel said:
    I've been a fan since May 2020, when I first came across it. Today, I named it as one of the three best Windows 10 tools of 2020: Top 3 2020 Windows 10 Utilities in my end-of-year blog post. Best thing that's happened to bootable media in forever, in fact.
    With your extended knowledge of Windows, in your opinion, what do you recommend as must have ISO tools [ NON-installing ] to include on the USB. I assume that MemTest and WinPE would be included.

    Thanks in advance.
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  9. EdTittel
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    Sure thing. I also keep my Macrium Rescue Disk and Kyhi's Rescue Disk on there as well. Goes off to look... Also Dart 10 (Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset). --Ed--
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  10. Paul Black
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    EdTittel said:
    Sure thing. I also keep my Macrium Rescue Disk and Kyhi's Rescue Disk on there as well. Goes off to look... Also Dart 10 (Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset). --Ed--
    Thank you.

    I suppose that Linux Mint and Ubuntu can be booted and used without installing them as well?

    I will definitely look into this further in the New Year.
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  12. sdowney717
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    Paul Black said:
    Thank you.

    I suppose that Linux Mint and Ubuntu can be booted and used without installing them as well?

    I will definitely look into this further in the New Year.
    Certainly can, they can run as a live usb without an install. I suppose usb 3 would be great.
    I know there is a 'persistence' you can add into the usb when creating a live usb for linux.
    That allows for files to be saved to the USB device when running the OS as a live usb.

    I also wonder if you can use a real usb hard drive with persistence set to create a portable linux os to boot off any hardware.
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  13. ap1978
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    Ventoy 1.0.33

    - Add support for Keyboard layout F5 Tools ---> Keyboard Layouts
    - Add support for boot Linux vDisk file from other bootloaders. Notes
    - Add persistence support for Kali/CloneZilla
    - Fix a bug when using workaround for Legacy BIOS access limitation in GPT partition style
    - Fix a bug when using Ventoy2Disk.sh -l (PR #703)
    - New iso support (total 600+)
    Clover-5128-X64.iso (UEFI)
    austrumi64-4.3.5.iso (Legacy + UEFI)
    slacko64-7.0.iso (Legacy + UEFI)
    bionicpup32-8.0-uefi.iso (Legacy + UEFI)
    ldiag_4.37.0_linux.iso (Legacy + UEFI)
    LinuxRa1n-V3.4_Ultimate.iso (Legacy + UEFI)
    checkra1n-0.12.1_linux_live.iso (Legacy + UEFI)
    ubuntu-20.10-live-server-arm64.iso (ARM64 UEFI)
    ubuntu-20.04.1-live-server-arm64.iso (ARM64 UEFI)
    ubuntu-18.04.5-server-arm64.iso (ARM64 UEFI)

    Release Ventoy 1.0.33 release . ventoy/Ventoy . GitHub
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