Plus you'd probably need a huge USB flashdrive for Windows. vhd file? Not sure Ventoy supports booting Windows like that though, on Linux you have to run that command to prepare the image. On your computer, the location could be /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc or something similar.You could probably use the same Ventoy trick to boot a Vindows. The latter shows that my USB drive is mounted at /dev/sda. You can find it by issuing the mount command on the command line or with the GNOME Disks command, which provides a graphical interface. You need to determine your USB drive's correct mount point for this script to work properly.

Change directory into the Ventoy folder, and look for a shell script named Ventoy2Disk.sh. Insert your USB drive into your computer. After the download and extraction are complete, you are ready to install Ventoy to your USB drive. You can also use your Linux distribution's archive manager to accomplish the same task. This command extracts all the necessary files into a folder named ventoy-x.y.z on my desktop. Next, extract the ventoy-x.y. archive (but replace x.y.z with your download's version number) using the tar command (to keep things simple, I use the * character as an infinite wildcard in the command): $ tar -xvf ventoy*z I downloaded the archive file to my desktop.

Yet, it's easier than it might seem.įirst, download Ventoy. The Linux installation happens from the command line, so it can be a little confusing if you're not familiar with that process. There is excellent documentation to download and install Ventoy on Microsoft Windows. Ventoy is open source with a GPL v3 license and available for Windows and Linux.

On a 16GB drive, I placed Elementary 5.1, Linux Mint Cinnamon 5.1, and Linux Mint XFCE 5.1… and still have 9.9GB free.

Welcome to the communityĪs you might expect, a USB drive's size will determine how many distributions you can fit onto it.

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