In a few moments you would be ready with the system. More on that later.Īfter this you will land on the boot menu of the particular distro.įrom there you can choose the relevant option(Live/Install) etc. On selecting any of the OS, you go into the persistence options menu if you have the persistence files setup. Once you boot in to the Ventoy menu, you will see the list of all the distros that you copied. Once ventoy is installed, you just need to copy the ISO images on the stick and boot from the USB. Copy ISO files - While it says that you can put iso/wim/img/vhd(x) files, I only tried it with ISO files.There is an option Ventoy2Disk.exe -U to list all drives too while starting ventoy from CMD for windows. Just make sure that you are using the correct drive identifier. Install ventoy - Use the given script to install ventoy on the USB drive.Of course, in case of issues, you have the forum and online help.įor me it worked like a charm. Is it easy?Īs per the documentation, getting ventoy to run is quite simple. But as you know managing linux distros is not that simple. Looking at the homepage of the project, it feels quite promising. Ventoyįrom one of the comments I got to know that there is a new project called ventoy for the same use case. One multi boot project has been there for sometime but it seems that it is no longer maintained. Now that we have cheaper high capacity USB sticks available, I thought to checkout a multi boot system. Till now I have been doing it by creating single Live-USB drives. I am always interested in trying out new Linux Distros just to see whats new.

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