The only drawback is that you can’t use it for non-ISO installations. It’s open-source, free, and supports over 260 ISO files. Ventoy represents a new generation of ISO burning apps. If you play around with multiboot usb's, you owe it to yourself to at least check it out.This new software application takes a different approach to OS booting, facilitating the process and making it more flexible. I've found Ventoy to be crazy simple and very effective, and there IS a linux installer. The only caveat is that none of your folders or ISO filenames can contain any spaces, dots (other than the one immediately before 'iso' ie: somefile.iso), or special characters.strictly letters and numbers. It boots the ISO's directly, and seems to be able to deal with any type of Live or OS installer ISO. 1st screen shows everything, but if you hit F3, it will give you a menu of whatever subfolders you created, and allow you to proceed from there. When you boot the stick, it will auto-create a menu for you showing everything you put on the stick. No extraction or other functions required. You can create subfolders to keep things tidy.

It will boot on MBR & EFI systems equally well.Īll you have to do it start copying any ISO files you want to use into that 'blank' area.

It has installed a boot partition with the required software on it, but you shouldn't need to even view that for most purposes. When you install Ventoy onto your USB stick, and when you access/view the stick, you don't see anything in your file appears totally blank (before adding any ISO's). Previously, I used Yumi, but that is a windows app and honestly I find it a bit clunky for my liking. Quite by accident, I recently discovered another multiboot usb tool called Ventoy.

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