Usually when you want to boot from a USB stick to install, say, Ubuntu, you need to turn your entire USB stick into the Ubuntu installer. Maybe you use something like Rufus for this purpose.
Ventoy, once installed, makes it so that your USB stick doesn't have to be dedicated to one specially-unpacked disc image. You just copy the raw disc images into the USB stick like you're storing regular files, then when you boot into the USB stick, Ventoy will show up. You will be presented with a menu listing all of those disc images you copied, then you can select which one you want to boot into.
The main thing I use this for is having a 'PC rescue' thumb drive I can use to troubleshoot unruly desktops. This is the list of images I have currently:
Without Ventoy, I'd need a separate USB stick for each of those images.
The links:
And if you're interested in the disc images I listed from my own USB stick, here are the links for those:
ESET SysRescue Live
KNOPPIX
Kubuntu
Memtest86
Rescuezilla
Ubuntu
Ultimate Boot CD
Ultimate Boot CD Live
Ventoy, once installed, makes it so that your USB stick doesn't have to be dedicated to one specially-unpacked disc image. You just copy the raw disc images into the USB stick like you're storing regular files, then when you boot into the USB stick, Ventoy will show up. You will be presented with a menu listing all of those disc images you copied, then you can select which one you want to boot into.
The main thing I use this for is having a 'PC rescue' thumb drive I can use to troubleshoot unruly desktops. This is the list of images I have currently:
- ESET SysRescue Live
- KNOPPIX
- Kubuntu
- Memtest86
- Rescuezilla
- Ubuntu
- Ultimate Boot CD
- Ultimate Boot CD Live
- Windows 10
- Windows 11
Without Ventoy, I'd need a separate USB stick for each of those images.
The links:
Code:
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VentoyAnd if you're interested in the disc images I listed from my own USB stick, here are the links for those:
ESET SysRescue Live
Code:
https://www.eset.com/la/support/sysrescue/KNOPPIX
Code:
https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.htmlKubuntu
Code:
https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/Memtest86
Code:
https://www.memtest86.com/download.htmRescuezilla
Code:
https://rescuezilla.com/downloadUbuntu
Code:
https://ubuntu.com/download/desktopUltimate Boot CD
Code:
https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.htmlUltimate Boot CD Live
Code:
https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ubcdlive.html
