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I like the idea of bootable usb, but 9 times out of 10 it's easier for me to do a PXE boot to an iso. I have a linux computer setup to provide the PXE boot stuff in my lab. I used to have a vmware player image that would run pxe boot on a 2nd nic I put in my laptop (USB), but it's been awhile since I've needed to do that.
Windows images that are over 4.3GB(I don't remember the exact max size) most image burning tools will fallback to NTFS on the USB formatting and some motherboards/laptops don't like this. (Even on my rather modern Dell laptop) The best solution so far I've found is to manually partition the USB into a 1GB FAT32 partition and the rest NTFS. Then you extract the files where needed [0] I learned this method just last ye…
Rufus does in fact have a long explanation of this on their FAQ: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#blah-uefi-blah-fat... You probably left Secure Boot on. That prevents loading the NTFS UEFI driver.
Sadly most of my clients won't just accept the option of installing Linux ;)
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Balena Etcher is great for imaging rpi as well.
It is not. hundred+ MB electron app, instead Rufus being few hundreds of KB and around 10x more flexible in corner cases. I really despise BE from engineering perspective.
Well have to say Rufus is good. But there is a far better tool: Ventoy. You will only need to format your thumb drive once and for all. After that, you will simply only need to copy the image file such as .iso, .vhd etc on to the drive and you are all set. Check details from the following sites. https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
I tried Ventoy several months ago, and go back to Rufus because it can’t boot EndeavourOS. That’s weird because every comment I saw about Ventoy is positive.
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Balena Etcher is great for imaging rpi as well.
It is not. hundred+ MB electron app, instead Rufus being few hundreds of KB and around 10x more flexible in corner cases. I really despise BE from engineering perspective.
Thouroughly unimpressed with it and any project recommending or even insisting on using it.
Well have to say Rufus is good. But there is a far better tool: Ventoy. You will only need to format your thumb drive once and for all. After that, you will simply only need to copy the image file such as .iso, .vhd etc on to the drive and you are all set. Check details from the following sites. https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
I tried Ventoy several months ago, and go back to Rufus because it can’t boot EndeavourOS. That’s weird because every comment I saw about Ventoy is positive.
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Etcher is easy to use but why on earth did they decide to make it an electron app?
Portability, RUFUS is windows only, most other tools require a lot more work to port. this one appears to be installable/usable on Win/Mac/Linux Personally I'm a fan of ventoy[0] though it doesn't appear to be installable on mac, but if you set it up on linux/windows you can just drop any iso you want onto it from any system and it'll work like a charm. [0] https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy