Ventoy is great for installing Solus

Bouquins

Hello all !

Ventoy is a multi-boot USB creator, which runs perfectly for installing Solus (Budgie, in my case.)
Download it here:

https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html

I've downloaded the Linux version, so unpack it wherever you want, plug a USB stick in your computer, and run whatever VentoyGUI you need. Once this is done, you can simply drag and drop on your USB stick as much ISOs as the stick is able to get.
Insert the USB stick in the computer you want Solus to be installed (or whatever distro you want), start the computer, and you'll get as many entries as you have ISOs. Simply choose one, and voilà !

Cheers !

Antoine

Bouquins Yes ventoy is very impressive i use only ventoy for any boot now.

Solarmass

Yep, Ventoy is the best!
We need it in the Solus repo 🙂

brent

drag and drop, multiple .isos, no burning/rewriting/DD-ing/Etchering/etc
great tool

murbert

It is ridiculous how good/simple/easy Ventoy is. It's all I use these days. It works with Windows ISOs too.

WetGeek

murbert It is ridiculous how good/simple/easy Ventoy is.

Where did you get this? I'd give it a try, but it's not in the Solus repo, and not in the Flathub repo. And I don't do Snap.

Solarmass

WetGeek https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html

Check the For Linux - CLI mode section.
I haven't tried GUI mode yet.

Download it from here https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases

WetGeek

Solarmass Download it from here https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases

Amazing. Thanks! I wouldn't have guessed that it's a Linux distro. I downloaded the .ISO and created a VM.

Now I know what to do with that 248GB USB key I bought to see if I could run Solus on it (as an experiment).

Solarmass

Solarmass I haven't tried GUI mode yet.

I just downloaded and unpacked ventoy-1.0.79-linux.tar.gz and in readme:

VentoyGUI is native GUI program for Linux (GTK/QT)

Just double-click the file (e.g. VentoyGUI.x86_64)

If it can not startup after double-click, you can open the terminal and just execute the file (e.g. ./VentoyGUI.x86_64)

Can confirm GUI works! 🎉

Solarmass

WetGeek you can also unpack ventoy-1.0.79-linux.tar.gz and run it in the terminal 🙂

WetGeek

Solarmass you can also unpack ventoy-1.0.79-linux.tar.gz

It looks like that might be the way I should do it. I don't have a hardware computer that I'd want to devote to writing .ISO files to USB keys. And I've not yet been able to get pass-through USB service working in a VM.

murbert

I didn't set up Ventoy in Linux, I used Windows. Super easy there, just double click the .exe.

Solarmass

murbert I didn't set up Ventoy in Linux, I used Windows. Super easy there, just double click the .exe.

ximbietc

Solus ISOs could be "Ventoy Compatible" in the future?

brent

I wasn't finished: can delete any ISO at will, no rewriting or reformatting of USB and no influence on the other ISOs.
The epitome of a "that was easy" button. @WetGeek glad you discovered it. you can accumulate distros in a centralized place for sure.

Bouquins

Why Am I deleted ???

WetGeek

Bouquins Why Am I deleted ???

Huh? To me, you still seem to be here. What's wrong?

WetGeek

Speaking of USB drives, I accidentaly left one in my shorts pocket this morning and ran it through the washer, Tide and all. I didn't notice it until I heard a bit of a "clink" sound as I was pulling clothes out of the dryer and folding them. It's just an older USB 2.0 device, which I intended to discard anyway, so it would have been no big loss.

But I plugged it in to my laptop, and it mounted, completely unharmed. It's a Mageia 8 installer, and the only thing that was damaged is the paper tag identifying the distro. Sturdy things, these USB drives.

brent

WetGeek amazing isn't it? I've run a couple accidentally through a cycle...and the dryer. Plugged in and worked like a charm and all my files are there. Since it's not an electrical device per se, it may actually be water-resistant in some way.

Bouquins

WetGeek

This:

Rantnar

Not that great if you’re using Mac or MacBook. I don’t think they aim to support booting from Mac.

brent

Rantnar couldnt believe it was true but it is (https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/52). Who heard of a WIN/Linux app that excluded MAC? I can't think of a single one....I read a ventoy forum where a bunch of mac users discussed work-arounds (but I can't find it right now) and one of them was making a mac partition on the USB formatted in GPT and then Ventoy would play nice with Mac but something about that doesn't make sense...or maybe it does?