![]() ![]() If you want, you can live boot other Linux distros and explore without making any changes to your computer. High capacity thumb drives are cheap these days.Īs a new version of your favorite Linux Mint distro is released, simply swap out the ISO file for the new one for installing on your friends / family's computers (maniacal laughing intensifies). Depending on the capacity of your thumb drive, you can have DOZENS of ISO files on the drive. You no longer have to have a "dedicated" Linux thumb drive. You can continue using your Ventoy formatted thumb drive as a regular thumb drive if you wish. You can then "boot" into the ISO file as if it were burned on to the drive itself. Now, with an ISO file on the drive, you can reboot your computer, choose the one time boot option before the computer starts the installed OS (F11 for Dell / ESC for HP boot menu), select your thumb drive to boot from and then you are presented with a Ventoy menu list of the ISO files on the drive. I recommend creating an 'ISO's' directory on the drive, Ventoy will find them. You no longer have to "burn" ISO files to a thumb drive, simply copy the ISO file to the drive. It creates a very small bootable partition on the drive, you won't even notice the very small capacity loss. exe/ Linux Terminal - Web interface) to reformat the thumb drive. The downside to them is that it "dedicates" the entire thumb drive's capacity to the purpose of whatever the ISO file was intended for. ISO -> USB thumb drive writing programs such as Rufus or Etcher became very popular. Once the USB thumb drive was introduced into the market, they are re-writable. The ISO file format was originally intended and used for CD's, DVD's and Blu-Ray's as a convenient way of distributing the entire contents of a disc in one file.ĬD and DVD's are not used much today but the ISO file format lives on. Other members may know of techniques to unlock USBs that are locked by some mechanism.That is the antiquated way of doing it today. that was the ONLY unit ever that I encountered that exhibited that 'locked behavior in my 3 decades of use. About a month ago, I ran across a video where I watch someone unlock this type of vendor locking, but, for the life of me, I cannot find it in my history. ![]() ![]() After repeating attempts over several months using all sorts of techniques found in/out of the forum, I gave up and discarded it. This was a vendor product USB given me that I tried to understand and unlock.to no avail. Several years ago I had a USB stick that, for the life of me, I could NOT unlock. If this is happening with all of your removables, there must be function somewhere in your system(s) that is flipping your removables to a read-only status as if there is a physical switch on the units to make them 'locked'. Or are you saying that when trying to repurpose a removable, GParted wont allow you to do so? When you say "locked up" does this mean you cannot write to them to add ISOs.or something else./ This sound like something going on within your OS(s) that is affecting your removables. Tosim wrote: ↑ Fri 6:09 As you may recall. With this USB arrangement, I directly boot EVERY ISO file and IMG file I put in the BOOTISOS folder. Moral to this story: "Since 2019, all WoofCE PUPs and DOGS boot directly from their ISO files via SG2D without issue while, since Ventoy's introduction, only the 2 mentioned DOG-PUPs do so from Ventoy's Menu listing."īenefit: SG2D boots everything in this forum while Ventoy expresses to boot ALL distro ISO files. There are some recent issues with KLV that are being worked on, currently. I use this USB arrangement for both good housekeeping of all my PUP ISOs and because it is a Frugal setup without any need to extract or corrupt ISO contents. I have tested all 64bit DOGs and WoofCE PUPs they all boot without issue! If there are any boot issues, these would be PUP/DOG distro issues and will have nothing to do with either Ventoy or SG2D. Hit the Enter-key on the SG2D Menu allowing it to discover all ISO filesĮXPECT to boot every ISO file you see. Put ALL of your ISO files in a folder on the USB named 'BOOTISOS' (DONT WORRY Ventoy will find them without problems)Īdd the SuperGrub2 (SG2D) ISO file to your folder with ISOs If you want to circumvent and boot ALL PUPs and DOGs, (in today's versions), you will need to They are Slacko64s beginning v7.0 and all v8+. There is only 2 PUPDOG vintages, thus far, that currently boot OOTB from the Ventoy Menu. It has little to nothing to do with your USB sticks, rather, it a problem that has been around since VEntoy started. ![]() I am having problems trying to boot both 64- and 32-bit versions with Ventoy. ![]()
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