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Really useful tool!

It even helped me as my Surface Go didn’t want to boot on a USB drive, but accepted to boot on it through Ventoy.

It’s one of these miracle software 👍

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Do keep in mind that Ventoy works differently from flashing tools like BalenaEtcher. Those differences may break certain ISOs, though in my experience that’s rare.

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For some reason, it didn’t work on OpenBSD. I couldn’t install the file sets until I wrote the image to the flash drive normally.

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  1. sudo ventoy -i /dev/x
  2. sudo mount /dev/x1
  3. Profit???
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Wasn’t there recently a controvetsy about Ventoy having binary blobs? Or did that get resolved?

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Reading through the issue on github, if you check the blob directories there are at least some level of documentation on how to build them yourself. I haven’t personally tried (rarely need to use ventoy in the first place), but at least thats something

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I have tried–the instructions are woefully inadequate. I tried following them to build Ventoy and had to make numerous modifications just to get the first couple of components to build. At that point I gave up

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Thats good feedback, and very unfortunate

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The amount of advertising for this tool in recent times is starting to look a lot like astroturfing.

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