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A New Bootable USB Solution

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Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by nsonha »

artificialLimbs wrote: post #10

I screwed around with Ventoy for a while but couldn't get it to work for my use case. This was along with a slew of other USB booting solutions including (but not limited to) unetbootin, rufus, Sardu, lili, and yumi. We have an obscure imaging program we licensed for our Windows fleet, and I wanted to do it along with a normal Windows 10 boot on one USB connected ssd. Finally got it working after days of research wit…

I remember the day I've found Sardu, it was mind blowing, but they have this ridiculous thing about naming the ISOs and copying is really slow, now with Ventoy it's just work TM. We've come a long way.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by AgentEpsilon »

piperswe wrote: post #3

I have my home network configured with netboot.xyz, which provides a similar experience except without using USB at all.

This is a bit off topic, but I'd love to hear more detail as to your home network setup. I've seen netboot.xyz before but I have no real knowledge as to how such a setup would work.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by rntksi »

AgentEpsilon wrote: post #12
piperswe wrote: post #3

I have my home network configured with netboot.xyz, which provides a similar experience except without using USB at all.

This is a bit off topic, but I'd love to hear more detail as to your home network setup. I've seen netboot.xyz before but I have no real knowledge as to how such a setup would work.

What I did was get up a server as DHCP server on the LAN, install tftpd on it and have netboot.xyz on it. Then for other machines (inside same LAN) that you want to boot something or install a distro, you would boot LAN, the dhcp server you set up will automatically let that other machine boot into netboot.xyz and then you can choose your distro.

It works really well for colocation server where you don't have the freedom to go there and plug in an Usb or a DVD because it's 1000km away in the footsteps of a hotspring in Iceland for example.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by WalterGR »

artificialLimbs wrote: post #10

I screwed around with Ventoy for a while but couldn't get it to work for my use case. This was along with a slew of other USB booting solutions including (but not limited to) unetbootin, rufus, Sardu, lili, and yumi. We have an obscure imaging program we licensed for our Windows fleet, and I wanted to do it along with a normal Windows 10 boot on one USB connected ssd. Finally got it working after days of research wit…

> Windows PE (is that still a thing?).

Seems to be. Latest release was 3 months ago, “Built from Windows 11 v21H2 code base.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Envi...

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by rntksi »

ngcc_hk wrote: post #13

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If you worry about that just format the partition with the OS iso instead of using ventoy. Ventoy is harmless but you never know what can happen and if you're that paranoid for good reasons, having a signature file that can vouch for your iso not being modified + being 100% sure you are booting into that ISO defeats all the conveniences in the world that Ventoy or Any-other-solution gives you.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by mastax »

I spent a while making the perfect portable Linux USB SSD with persistent storage and a universally mountable data partition using ventoy - then discovered that my Surface Laptop 3 can't boot upstream Linux and gave up on the whole endeavor.
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