• Otter@lemmy.ca
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      1 year 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 while I’m having some federation issues, the linked website can be subscribed to from here :)

      !veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube

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          1 year ago

          @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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            1 year 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.

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      1 year 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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        1 year 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?)