Pendrive's layout, after Ventoy's installation Ventoy is a script, a small program, that, when run (as root), partitions a USB stick (which must be specified so that the program can do its job), in two partitions: A 32 MiB partition, in which a loader is installed, and, which also serves as an EFI partition, if the pendrive is used to boot on machines with EFI boot, and the rest of the pendrive is formatted in exFAT, and the pendrive is labeled Ventoy. The concept of Ventoy is so simple that it is surprising that nobody had thought about this system before. In addition, they can be mixed without any problem. Also, several types of ISO's are supported, from Linux, BSD and even Windows. So, we who use Linux have been orphaned of some solution that was practical, easy and that effectively worked.Įnter Ventoy, a program that manages the use of the USB flash drive regarding boot management, the flash drive being just one ISO, or multi ISO's. Really, it did not improve as it should, lagging behind other solutions. On Linux, we had Unetbootin, which was a very good tool, but which did not continue development in the jump from 32 to 64 bits.
Just for comparison, Windows has Wubi, Rufus, Yumi, Universal USB Installer, LiLi USB Creator, and the list goes on and on. Either you don't have all the features of the Windows programs, or it's complicated and laborious to make it work. Aside from the nostalgic unetbootin, the bootable USB solutions on Linux are always lame. USB flash drives on Linux have always been problematic.
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