Ventoy, a multi-boot OS installer

[fox]

Found out about it from this article. I want to try it, so I went to the website to grab a download. There were two versions for Linux: an iso and a tar.gz file. Unclear to me which one to use, or if there is any difference between them. I would want to use it to try out different distros, not necessarily to install one.

[ssfc72]

Thanks for the tip, Mike.  I will check it out.

Sounds like YUMI multiboot, which I currently use with my usb pen flash/pen drives.

[Jason]

I had two posts that I deleted because I think I've found the answer. From the manual:

1. Ventoy LiveCD is only for Windows users and only needed when Ventoy2Disk.exe always fail.

So you need the tar.gz version. You unzip it and then you run the GUI or CLI version to install it to a USB drive.

In the /home/jason/Downloads/ventoy-1.0.62/tool/x86_64/ directory (for modern PCs) There are various programs in there, one of which you execute depending on the environment, gtk2, qt, etc. (if you want a GUI) or for the CLI interface, there's a script you run. To run the appropriate program, you'll have to make it executable. The file manager will let you do this or you can do it at the command line:

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$ chmod +x foobar (foobar because I'm not sure of the actual name as I edit this post!)

Looks like you'll need to run it as root as well. I think most file managers will let you do this when you right-click on them. Or you can use sudo at the command line.