How to copy .iso to ventoy? - am I dumb?

General system Newbie
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Hello dear community,

I am trying to get myself a USB drive with working ventoy.

After installing ventoy-bin from the AUR it installed the drive it flawlessly.

Every Guide or Tutorial now says, just mount it like a USB an copy your desired ISOs on the first partition.

But this does not work.

The ventoy FAQ says:

How to mount the ISO partition in Linux after boot ?

By default, the ISO partition can not be mounted after boot Linux (will show device busy when you mount).
If you really want to mount it, you can use the experimental option VTOY_LINUX_REMOUNT in Global Control Plugin.

Why do they say If you really want to mount it... like this would be a niche scenario.
But how would I use ventoy without copying ISOs to it?

Then I went searching for the .json file one can edit to make it mountable.

But its not in my /ventoy folder on the stick.

I think I’m overlooking something really obvious there… :confused:

Thank you!

EDIT: SOLUTION IS THE EDIT

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Ventoy USB sticks usually have 2 partitions. One for booting, and a second partition to copy iso-files onto. It usually works without any extra json-files or anything.

Also, your USB should have the same version of ventoy installed as the host-computer.

And, a USB stick created with Ventoy on a Legacy/Bios computer might not work on an UEFI system, me thinks (not 100% sure).

Perhaps you did something wrong in setting up your USB, or use an older version of Ventoy on your USB?

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have not used ventoy in a while. If memory servers me correct you only have to plug the ventoy drive in let it mount and either drag or drop or copy an iso to the root of the ventoy drive.

Put in thumb drive and right click in filemanager and choose mount.

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I know it should work the ways the two of you described.

Now I had a closer look on the error while trying to mount the partition

filesystem type exfat not configured in kernel

The package

extra/exfatprogs 1.2.1-1

is installed.

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So you could try a kernel reinstall?

EDIT:
exfat-utils might be needed, too. :wink:

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exfat-utils conflicts with exfatprogs which was preinstalled.

I was not sure if I can switch.

So for a kernel resinstall

sudo kernel-install /usr/lib/modules/6.3.3-arch1-1/

would work?

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Not sure. This would work to reinstall kernels:

sudo pacman -Syu linux linux-headers
…in case you use the mainline Arch kernel (not LTS, not Zen).

EDIT:
As for exfatprogs vs. exfat-utils, both are actively maintained in the repos, so you could try if a switch works.

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Install dosfstools and test.

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It works now with exfat-utils

It was already installed.

Thank you all for your help!

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Hello,

Not sure what “not configured” means, but it should be supported by default :

grep exfat /proc/filesystems

My old Ventoy USB thumb has a system partition named VTOYEFI and the partition for the ISO images is Ventoy, each image is copied to a directory, for example Ventoy/Garuda, Ventoy/Haiku …

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