This bumps the total officially supported ISOs to more than 940. The big news in Ventoy 1.0.79 is support for Fedora CoreOS, a minimal Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat after they acquired the CoreOS Linux project back in January 2018. It also works for legacy BIOS.Īs you can see, Ventoy is an essential tool for your kit.The popular and powerful Ventoy multiboot USB creator utility has been updated today to version 1.0.79, a stable release that adds support for new ISOs and various bug fixes. There is a listing of supported ISO images on the Ventoy site, that you can check for your chosen installer.

It automatically generates a menu and when you reboot using the key, you will get a screen that looks like the following: Ventoy UEFI Boot Selection Open up that device and copy in any ISO installers that you need. In a few seconds, it will create the disk and a new device will show up in your file manager called Ventoy. If you insert a new USB device, just hit update to refresh. Make sure the correct device is selected and click install.

You will see the following: Ventoy Installer Web Interface This will give you an IP address which you can then control-click the link to open it. The Windows installer is self-explanatory, and the Linux installer is very simple.ĭownload the tar.gz file, insert your USB key, and extract the tar file to a directory, open a terminal, and run: It has a very simple Windows installer and a very cool web-based installer for Linux. You can go to the Ventoy site to read about it and download it. This allows me to carry one key in my go bag to install or repair pretty much any system that I need in the field.

You boot from the key, select the ISO file you want, and install away.įor example, I keep the following images on my ventoy key: In essence, it allows you to put multiple OS installers on one USB key, instead of multiple keys, and it generates a boot menu automatically. Ventoy is a way to boot multiple iso image installers off of one USB key, using Legacy Bios OR UEFI.

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