Install Ventoy from Aur on a usb flash?

[drunkenvicar]

I know that he personally had a traumatic weekend restoring his system thru his own lack of double-checking. He told me, I mean. Also that guy had that ‘oh crap’ sinking feeling in his guts right after he hit enter and it took a couple days to rebuild his rig correctly. Poor sot; no wonder he drank.
Anyway

[BluishHumility]

@anon17373693

For me, the question is rather why I need Ventoy if I only ever have one ISO of one and the same distribution on there anyway. And this is replaced by a newer version at most twice a year. What is the advantage of using Ventoy instead of dd, for example?

I guess it depends on how you use it. Ventoy is great for ISO testing; no problem to throw ten ISOs on there all in a single whack and carry on imaging machines without having to re-flash the drive in between each one.

Still, even if you just have a single ISO you keep on the drive and you update it a couple times a year or whatever, it’s nice to be able to just toss an ISO in there right from the file explorer, or even download an ISO straight to the drive and be done with it. Way faster than reformatting the disk with a new ISO every time, plus no chance of dd misfires.

[rich52]

I have all four on my system. . . . popsicle, Suse-image writer, Impression, Ventoy. It’s all apples and oranges I think if they all work. Just download the Iso image file drop and drag into the app, let it do it’s work writing it to a thumbdrive. . . .voila, it’s done simple and easy.

Rich;)

[nicknick]

@drunkenvicar

how true. I still like to see what’s out there so have not outgrown checking stuff out but it’s rare it makes it to bare metal. Ventoy is a magnificent tool for that.

@nicknick you had a great variety of formatting opinions in here. I feel like the only user who uses gparted for all formatting needs. it’s a very blunt tool.

Thank you very much friend. I finally stuck with Ventoy with GUI, because then I can put the latest EOS ISO every time a new version is released. But maybe try some of these recommendations during the summer.

Can Gparted burn bootable ISOs? If so, do you know if KDE Partition Manager can also do it?

@thefrog

NO

dd is a very powerful tool and if you are not positive about what you are doing then you should not use dd. While its the only one I use there are several graphical ones that are much easier for the basic user.

Thank you very much friend. Yes, I stuck with Ventoy with GUI for now. This summer I will try other options. But for now Ventoy is quick and easy to delete and move new EOS ISOs that are released, so I can have the latest ISO in case I need it.

@thefrog

NO, but I know a guy who knows a guy

I just don’t want the OP to find out the hard way like that guy did

I’m so clumsy, it’s possible that I may end up worse than that friend. I might delete EOS by mistake, or something like that (if that’s even possible).

@BluishHumility

I guess it depends on how you use it. Ventoy is great for ISO testing; no problem to throw ten ISOs on there all in a single whack and carry on imaging machines without having to re-flash the drive in between each one.

Still, even if you just have a single ISO you keep on the drive and you update it a couple times a year or whatever, it’s nice to be able to just toss an ISO in there right from the file explorer, or even download an ISO straight to the drive and be done with it. Way faster than reformatting the disk with a new ISO every time, plus no chance of dd misfires.

Thank you very much friend. Yes, in the end I just updated Ventoy and move the new EOS ISOs every time they are released.

Maybe this summer I’ll try some of these other options, but for now I’ll stick with Ventoy. I don’t want to mistakenly delete the EOS partition or something.

@drunkenvicar

I know that he personally had a traumatic weekend restoring his system thru his own lack of double-checking. He told me, I mean. Also that guy had that ‘oh crap’ sinking feeling in his guts right after he hit enter and it took a couple days to rebuild his rig correctly. Poor sot; no wonder he drank.
Anyway

But, you seem to know a lot about this guy, more than he does himself.

@rich52

I have all four on my system. . . . popsicle, Suse-image writer, Impression, Ventoy. It’s all apples and oranges I think if they all work. Just download the Iso image file drop and drag into the app, let it do it’s work writing it to a thumbdrive. . . .voila, it’s done simple and easy.

Rich;)

Thank you very much friend. Yeah, I’ll finally stick with this one for now!

[anon63071375]

I usually just get it from their website - the .tar and then just open it from the file.

Ventoy

[thefrog]

@nicknick

Can Gparted burn bootable ISOs? If so, do you know if KDE Partition Manager can also do it?

No and No. Gparted and KDE Partition Manager are partition managers not ISO TO USB burners. You used these types of tools to give a drive a partition and file system that can be used with the OS.

@nicknick

I’m so clumsy, it’s possible that I may end up worse than that friend. I might delete EOS by mistake, or something like that (if that’s even possible).

Yes which is why I recommend you staying with a GUI. Its super simple to destroy your entire setup in an instant with dd before realizing you did so. dd is a tool that one needs to learn on a system that is not of importance as it is not as forgiving as the GUI’s mentioned.