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if you install from AUR it is simple ventoy as command:
sudo ventoy -i -g /dev/sdx

command usage
-i install ventoy to sdX (fail if disk already installed with ventoy)
-I force install ventoy to sdX (no matter installed or not)
-u update ventoy in sdX

OPTION: (optional)
-r SIZE_MB preserve some space at the bottom of the disk (only for install)
-s enable secure boot support (default is disabled)
-g use GPT partition style, default is MBR style (only for install)

after succeed with the command you simple can copy any ISO to the partition on the stick:

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-r to save part of the stick to use for storage

will be that:

sudo ventoy -i -g -r 6000 /dev/sdx saving 6GB at the end of the stick what you can format as you like then

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It just keeps coming up saying it needs root privileges.

Edit: I installed it from the AUR

[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$ sudo ventoy -i -g /dev/sdc
[sudo] password for ricklinux: 
/opt/ventoy /home/ricklinux

**********************************************
      Ventoy: 1.0.21
      longpanda admin@ventoy.net
      https://www.ventoy.net
**********************************************

Failed to access /dev/sdc, maybe root privilege is needed!

/home/ricklinux
[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$
43

sudo will give it … may you have the usb stick mounted or in use?

44

Could it have something to do with the BTRFS setup?
Edit: No usb is mounted.

Screenshot_20200924_123231

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what i son the stick now? may erase it first

46

Empty fat 32. Should i make it unpartitioned space?

47

Bingo!! We have a winner!

[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$ sudo ventoy -i -g /dev/sdc
[sudo] password for ricklinux:
/opt/ventoy /home/ricklinux

  Ventoy: 1.0.21
  longpanda admin@ventoy.net
  https://www.ventoy.net

Disk : /dev/sdc
Model: Verbatim STORE N GO (scsi)
Size : 29 GB
Style: GPT

Attention:
You will install Ventoy to /dev/sdc.
All the data on the disk /dev/sdc will be lost!!!

Continue? (y/n)

Edit:

Continue? (y/n) y

All the data on the disk /dev/sdc will be lost!!!
Double-check. Continue? (y/n) y

Create partitions on /dev/sdc by parted in GPT style ...
Done
mkfs on disk partitions ...
create efi fat fs /dev/sdc2 ...
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
success
mkexfatfs 1.3.0
Creating... done.
Flushing... done.
File system created successfully.
writing data to disk ...
sync data ...
esp partition processing ...

Install Ventoy to /dev/sdc successfully finished.
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48

for me it was working on a stick with iso on it before and mounted… so iut should work on any stick… but you ca try to erase first bytes of the stick:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=8

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So now i only have to copy the EndeavourOS ISO to the disc?

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50

ha ha same as mine:


╰─$ sudo ventoy -I -r 6000  /dev/sdd
/opt/ventoy /home/joekamprad

**********************************************
      Ventoy: 1.0.21
      longpanda admin@ventoy.net
      https://www.ventoy.net
**********************************************

Disk : /dev/sdd
Modell: Verbatim STORE N GO (scsi)
Size : 14 GB
Style: MBR

You will reserve 6000 MB disk space
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51

I have had enough failures with ventoy that it isn’t worth the hassle for me.

When it works it is great but when it doesn’t you then have to write it to a USB the normal way at which point I always wish I had done that to begin with.

If you do use it, make sure you test the integrity of the ISO after you copy the file to the USB.

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@joekamprad
So what is the purpose of this command to reserve space? Why?

sudo ventoy -I -r 6000  /dev/sdd
/opt/ventoy /home/joekamprad
53

In case you wanted to store data as opposed to ISO’s there.

54

Will it still store ISO’s too? Same spot? Or in the partition outside of the reserved space?

Edit: Also i see ventoy and VTOEFI showing as removable device. Where do i copy the iSO to?

Screenshot_20200924_135350

Screenshot_20200924_135545

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ventoy directory

56

There is a lot of stuff in the ventoy directory? Is that where you want to copy ISO’s to?

Edit:
It say’s not enough space!

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Not in VTOYEFI/Ventoy but in the device ventoy.

VTOYEFI is kind of ESP.

58

When he said directory i thought he meant the ventoy folder. :grin: :upside_down_face:

Edit: Is working now. Still like Etcher. :rofl:

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59

What do you know? Ventoy directoy is kind of Ventoy folder…

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Yes i know that but the device is named the same which throws you off when your brain is melting! :rofl:

Edit: Sometimes i feel so dumb! :sob:

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