• Otter@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      What are some recommendations for putting Ventoy on your main USB (with other contents instead of just ISOs)? I need to find the guide I saw, it mentioned some configurations to prevent it from searching every directory for ISOs

      Also the linked website can be subscribed to from here :)

      !veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube

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          3 months ago

          Alternatively when creating the ventoy installation you can chose to leave X amount of space behind the ventoy partition and then create your own data partition there afterwards. You lose the advantage of “dynamically” sharing the available space between ventoy and your data, but with the seperqte partition you can use whatever filesystem you like for your data, and there is a clear seperation between ventoy and your other data.

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          3 months ago

          I never really noticed performance decrease. But still this is great to know - thank you!

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      3 months ago

      I have Ventoy on a USB stick, tried to use it recently for DBAN and it didn’t work, is there any way to get around that these days? Haven’t looked into it recently.

      • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz
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        3 months ago

        It works for Ultimate Boot CD, which includes DBAN and a lot of other fun stuff.

        I play with retro hardware and Ventoy has also worked for me with some weird old isos that even Rufus didn’t work with (XP/Server 2003 multidisc from eXPerience that uses a Linux bootloader?)

        • @Telorand @atomkarinca

          Works for me on Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q’s I’ve sniped used & stacked.

          Although I gotta force text mode in Ventoy menu options, otherwise some distro ISO’s boot into scrambled graphics, suppose I should bother to RTFM sometime.

          I’ve yet to try Ventoy on an external NVMe case I pieced together recently, and on my wife’s newer laptop.

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            3 months ago

            I don’t mean to be rude, but great? Didn’t work for me on all my hardware, even using a Windows ISO. I pointed out my personal experience, because it’s not the panacea its proponents would have everyone believe.

            I would certainly never use it to install anything, after my experiences with it. If it can’t get opening ISOs right, I don’t need a surprise that my install is fucked up.