Ventoy to 'Preparing to Install' guide?

brent

WetGeek
old tech bloke makes the ventoy and uses it in his VM

but there ain't much else supporting this online that I could see. I'm inclined to agree with you. ventoy might be an extra/uneccessary middleman for your aims. he basically described it as a 'gigantic bootloader'.
for most uses i think a ventoy usb is simply an iso repository (storage) that launches the OS when you need it to.

with the amt of distros you have they are probably better off in nas of wherever you keep them. bei interested in second opinions

WetGeek

WetGeek should I just try to find some other use for this USB drive?

Speaking of this USB drive, when I bought it, I ordered a 128 GB Amazon Basics version. The label on the box it came in says it's an Amazon Basics 128 GB Ultra Fast 3.1 Flash Drive. But Dolphin calls it ... wait for it ...

What should I believe?

brent

get an opinion in the Plamsa equivalent of gnome-disks
and another reading from gparted
should be interesting. maybe they put a 250GB in their by mistake.
edit: inxi -Dj

WetGeek

brent get an opinion in the Plamsa equivalent of gnome-disks

Now, why didn't I think of that? Apparently it was simply packaged in error.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

murbert

WetGeek for the use case you outlined there's no point in using that thumb drive for Ventoy.

WetGeek

murbert there's no point in using that thumb drive for Ventoy.

Thanks for confirming that. I thought not, but I'd never used Ventoy, and didn't want to go with an assumption when I could simply ask someone who had used it.

brent

WetGeek Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

De nada. Here's some more: Am man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two is never sure.

Good luck with the power supply. Get a bright light and the tiny tools out. Easy work in a desktop, a laptop not so much🙂

stalebrim

WetGeek

Would Ventoy really help me somehow, or should I just try to find some other use for this USB drive?

Ventoy's useful when installing on bare metal, but I don't see it helping with VMs.

johano

stalebrim, as well as keeping ISO's for fresh installations, I find Ventoy otherwise useful–to keep system tools/diagnostic/recovery type ISOs. It also manages attaching persistence files to ISOs well, and so allowing keeping distro/s set up as you like for portable use. Agreed that for @WetGeek's VM use it doesn't really bring anything much of use.

@WetGeek, it seems to like to explore a lot of distros, and with your new 0.25 TB USB stick you would have plenty of room to play around with distros using persistence files. Probably not worth the effort though to become acquainted with Ventoy for short stay distros that you want to evaluate and check for interest's sake, when your current skills with VMs fit the role better?

WetGeek

Thanks to everyone who confirmed that Ventoy wouldn't be of use to me, according to my needs But those needs may be changing.

It turns out that my wife's laptop, which I'd thought she killed, was simply a victim of a bad power supply, and a new replacement is arriving today after 10am today. And the new laptop I'd ordered when I thought she'd killed her current one will be here tomorrow.

So after today, that new laptop won't be needed for her, and I think I'll keep it as another spare computer for testing interesting distros on hardware. There may be a job here for Ventoy and the new flash drive after all.

Solarmass

Ventoy is awesome! I used it to install Solus several times! Also Windows 11 🙂

stalebrim

brent

Am man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two is never sure.

What if they poll NTP servers

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