The actual installation then takes place for each USB stick. The Windows version comes as a ZIP archive, which you only have to unpack. Ventoy is available in versions for Windows and Linux. Particularly interesting for the installation of Windows is the option to control setup execution via an answer file. My goal was to have an installer that was fully grub compatible. I had been searching around for quite a while, without success, for a method to set up an Ubuntu installer to boot directly from a motherboard mounted Compact Flash drive. The USB stick would have to be rather big but maybe it will work Thanks.
It is possible to install with unetbootin. How to install from CF media/USB drive using the grub bootloader. I wonder if its possible to put FreeBSD into a separate partition on the USB stick, install the FreeBSD bootloader on that partition, then use chainloader +1 option in /etc/grub.d/40custom before running update-grub, all right on the USB stick. when selecting source select Install from a Slackware USB stick and follow the prompts Install with Unetbootin. setup your keyboard add swap space (if used) and select your target drive. In addition to ISO images, which can be larger than 4 GB, this tool also supports images in the WIM, IMG, and EFI formats. When installing, choose 'Install from a slackware USB stick'. This mode ensures that the entire ISO is first loaded into memory and then started.Īccording to the project's homepage, Ventoy has been tested with more than 470 ISO files to date. In this case, Ventoy offers Memdisk mode, which is activated with the F1 key. On BIOS computers, it might happen that an operating system cannot be started directly from the ISO. You can also store any other file type on this partition for normal use of the USB stick. The OS can then be installed on an internal drive as needed. In this way, admins can, for example, store different Linux distributions, Windows PE, or ESXi on a single memory stick and boot the OS they need from there. Ventoy presents a boot menu with the ISO images copied to the second partition