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Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

#42

Post by sireat »

What I really miss is the read only nature of CD, DVD based boots.

It is so easy to make the perfect USB only to ruin it by sticking in a "dirty" machine.

The write protect switches on a few select USB flash drives are more of a suggestion than a hard detterent.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

#44

Post by tantony »

bluepoint wrote: post #4

I wish there was an easy way to install it on macos.

I am not sure if this is what you are asking, but you can create a bootable USB with ventoy on macos using Virtualbox.

Create a VM with no storage, boot from the ventoy ISO, pass through the USB port from the host machine. I used this a couple of days back to create a bootable ventoy drive from my Macbook Pro.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

#45

Post by DarmokJalad1701 »

artfulhippo wrote: post #40
ngcc_hk wrote: post #13

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Not paranoid. There are many undocumented binary blobs. I wouldn't touch this project. Not worth he risk.

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/blob/master/DOC/BuildVentoy...

Check the "Binaries" section. This was addressed in an issue:

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/132

Not sure how comprehensive that list is though.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by DarmokJalad1701 »

anaganisk wrote: post #41
ngcc_hk wrote: post #13

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Yeah, China sends its drones over other countries, invades countries over oil. Has its three letter agencies constantly invading peoples privacy. Oh wait.

^This.

> China sends its drones over other countries

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3147997/reg...

> invades countries over oil

Add commercial fishing to that as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands_dispute#Hydroc...

> Has its three letter agencies

MPS aka Ministry of Public Security ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Security_(C... )

> constantly invading peoples privacy

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/19/china-police-big-data-sy...

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/how-china-harnesses-dat...

https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/chinas-all-seeing-surve...

Just thought I would add some sources to support your comments. Cheers!

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

#47

Post by anaganisk »

DarmokJalad1701 wrote: post #46
anaganisk wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, China sends its drones over other countries, invades countries over oil. Has its three letter agencies constantly invading peoples privacy. Oh wait.

^This. > China sends its drones over other countries https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3147997/reg... > invades countries over oil Add commercial fishing to that as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands_dispute#Hydroc... > Has its three letter agencies MPS aka Ministry of Public Security ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Security_(C... ) > constantly invading peoples priv…

Yeah thats my point, you can use that template with any super power. Thats why I didn’t use any names of countries.

Re: A New Bootable USB Solution

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Post by retrobox »

I find Ventoy really good! Saves juggling many USB drives and it worked fine with the ISOs I tested including Windows 10, Macrium Reflect’s recovery disc, and Ubuntu. I was pretty close to buying a hardware solution (iodd) but for simple needs, Ventoy seems solid.
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