You want to use another distribution, you have to format the USB and burn the other distribution on it. Usually, you put one Linux distribution on a single USB stick. If you like the distribution, you can then choose to install it. You probably already know that you can create a live USB of a Linux distribution and try it on any system without installing it.

Add automated or unattended install configuration.Brief: This tutorial shows the steps you can take to create a live USB stick that allows you to boot into more than Linux distributions without needing to re-image the drive.

It also comes with a plugin option, ventoy plugin allows you to :

Also there is live boot version of ventoy creator available, this helps you to create bootable usb without live linux. Ventoy USB creator is available for windows and linux systems. Complete list of tested image acan be found in Its also compatible with most of the modern and legacy OS images. Ventoy currently supports following platforms: x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI . Since Ventoy automatically mount these images as virtual hardware no need to worry about creating a bootable usb anymore. Simply select the OS image and continue with your installation process. Now you can all your boot images to second partition ( by default labeled as VENTOY).ĭuring boot ventoy automatically adds all supported images from second partition to boot selection menu. Ventoy simply creates a partition and creates its boot binaries to that partition. Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive and supports ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

so each time you want add image to the usb need a computer with usb boot disk creation tool.īut ventoy helps to over come this problem, With ventoy you create a botable USB once and you can use it for any OS images without reformatting your USB. But majority of them need extracts the contents of the boot image and copies into usb drive. I have been looking for a simple multiboot usb creator tools. AUTO Install, EFI, GPT, IMG, ISO, kickstart, Linux, MBR, Multiboot, Secure Boot, unattended install., USB Boot, VHD, VHDX, Wim, Windows

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