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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 yosito »

This website is missing an "installation" section or a "how the fuck do I start using this". Dear developers, even if your software is easy to install and use, don't assume that everyone knows which method you've chosen to install and use your software. There are a million ways to do things, and I can't read your mind.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by michalhosna »

yosito wrote: post #31

This website is missing an "installation" section or a "how the fuck do I start using this". Dear developers, even if your software is easy to install and use, don't assume that everyone knows which method you've chosen to install and use your software. There are a million ways to do things, and I can't read your mind.

Not saying is super easy to find.

But it's literally the second page in documentation https://ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by yosito »

michalhosna wrote: post #32
yosito wrote: post #31

This website is missing an "installation" section or a "how the fuck do I start using this". Dear developers, even if your software is easy to install and use, don't assume that everyone knows which method you've chosen to install and use your software. There are a million ways to do things, and I can't read your mind.

Not saying is super easy to find. But it's literally the second page in documentation https://ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html

Fair enough, it's hidden under a navigation link called "Document", which isn't exactly clear.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by mattowen_uk »

WalterGR wrote: post #17
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...

PE exists as a 'lightweight' Windows environment and is basically what you are using as you install Windows from DVD/USB/ISO.

Under the bonnet there are also command line tools included in Windows such as DISM and WinImage and good old DiskPart that can be used to edit and dump a copy of the Windows OS (as a .wim file) onto a SSD/HDD and then boot it and let it auto-configure to the hardware.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by hypertele-Xii »

moondev wrote: post #8
hypertele-Xii wrote: post #5

So many competing solutions. Yet I've never used one that worked on the first try. Wonder how this one is better than the others?

What are the others that you have tried?

Latest one was Universal USB Installer [1].

[1] https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-a...

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by artfulhippo »

rfoo wrote: post #23
ngcc_hk wrote: post #13

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I'd say this is beyond paranoid (as it seems targeted), I can understand given that your handle is ngcc_HK though. FWIW, Ventoy is FOSS [1], so, the same rule holds: you can inspect the source and build it yourself. [1] https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy

Looking thru the source, there are many binary blobs. So no, this is not safe, or auditable without extensive reverse engineering.
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