On 3/7/23 07:37, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
I don't remember if you even have to remove the key. Me I just right now plug a ventoy usb pen. Dolphin shows a "ventoy" disk, a clic ad it mounts an exfat partition, you can copy isos to this mounted partition as a file, not as a device . There is an other hidden (EFI) partition with ventoy driver.
These instructions from the Ventoy site are very confusing: After the installation is complete, the USB drive will be divided into 2 partitions. The 1st partition was formated with exFAT filesystem (You can also reformat it manually with NTFS/FAT32/UDF/XFS/Ext2/3/4 ... See Notes <https://ventoy.net/en/doc_disk_layout.html>). You just need to copy iso files to this partition. You can place the iso/wim/img/vhd(x) files any where. First it says you copy iso files to this partition. What partition? Then it says you can place the iso/etc files ANYWHERE !! I am trying yet again. I must be stupid ! They have also released another update to the program 1.0.89 apparently because of problems with the latest kernel.
mine:
Disk /dev/sde: 120.22 GiB, 129083899904 bytes, 252116992 sectors Disk model: STORE N GO Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x09a21f19
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sde1 * 2048 252051455 252049408 120.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sde2 252051456 252116991 65536 32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
then you can boot the usb pen and ventoy launch and shows the isos and offers to boot.
booting the iso works often, but not always (approx ratio 4 times on 5 tries). Depends on the iso, the hardware, whatever...
jdd
Thanks Frank McCormick