all right if you're anything like me and
you want to try out a new linux
distribution
uh what you do is you get one of these
little usb here
plug it into your computer open up a
program like etcher popsicle
rufus and go ahead and flash the iso
directly to the usb
now what if i told you we are completely
wasting our time
what i have here is a usb accurate this
is a multi-boot
usb drive that has 10 different
operating systems on it
including windows 10 and a bunch of my
favorite linux distributions so what i'm
going to do in this video is show you
how to make the
ultimate bootable multi-iso
usb drive but first but first
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now creating this
usb the ultimate multi-boot usb
it's actually really easy to do what
we're going to use is a tool
called ventoy it is a free and open
source
usb bootable solution available for both
windows and linux i would recommend you
go to this website and read through
everything you'll get a lot more
in-depth detail of what exactly is going
on here
and another thing i'd suggest you do is
right here under tested iso this is all
the different
windows operating systems linux
distributions
and everything else that is compatible
with this so with that said let's go
ahead and go over to the download page
and we're doing this in linux so go
ahead and click on the ventoy
linux.tar.gz open this up and here
we can download the linux version right
here
additionally if you go ahead and
download the windows one if you're in
windows
open that up you can see that it gives
you an exe
file all you need to do in windows is
extract this folder and then in this
directory open up the exe
and you're good to go linux process is a
couple extra steps so we're going to go
ahead and download this we'll
open the file and here is everything in
linux so what we're going to do is just
extract this we'll go ahead and throw
this
in our home directory just to keep it
simple hit extract
close this out and now if i go ahead and
minimize our browser and open up dolphin
let's go ahead and go to that home
directory and then you can see we have
this vintoy folder here
just open that up and you have a lot
going on here but all you're really
going to want to do is open this
directory in the terminal
one of the easiest ways to do this is
just to right click and hit open
terminal
and now you can see that we are already
in the directory that we want to be in
if i hit
ls you could see that as the correct
files so from here what we're going to
want to do is actually do a
pseudo sh and then type in the
venntoy web dot sh go ahead and hit
enter
type in your roo or your sudo password
and now here it's going to tell you to
open your browser visit this local ip
address
you can copy and paste this or you can
just hold down control and click
and we can see that this is our
graphical user interface for this
utility i already have my usb plugged in
if you don't now is a good time to go
ahead and do that
plug it in you can click this little
refresh button to rescan
your version number here and you have
some other options
and languages but we're not going to get
too far into that right now
let's go ahead and install so you just
click install it's going to make sure
that you want to format it because all
the data currently on this usb drive
will be lost
now it really wants you to double check
so we're going to hit ok
and it should take no time at all it is
now done
so from here if we go ahead and open up
our file explorer again
you'll see under removable devices we
have ventoy
now from here you don't need to do any
special flashing or anything like that
all we need to do is go ahead and grab
some isos and drop it in here
so under my documents i have all the
isos that i want to go ahead
and add to this multi boot drive
including endeavor fedora
opensuse pop os seduction solus
and i have a windows 10 iso here so
i'm just going to go like this right
click copy
go over to our ventoy right click
and paste now this might take a little
bit of time because that's about 25
gigabytes worth of iso files but that's
really all there is to it if you need
more detail or you want to
do secure boot properly or anything like
that go to the website here you have
some documentation but if we actually go
ahead and go on their github
page here is where we can get a lot of
information including all the features
and then right here we have the
installation instructions or install and
update so if i go over here you can get
a
full in-depth guide of everything that's
going on including the four
windows instructions the linux gui mode
which is what we just did
if you prefer cli you could do this
completely in the terminal
and there's a lot more stuff going on
here including some theme plugins some
menu extension plugins and other things
that you could go ahead and add to this
but basically when your files are done
copying over
you are ready to go ahead and plug this
in and boot into the drive
and the whole dragging and dropping it
just the windows iso
into this through linux is awesome
because usually you have to use wow
usb or some other special tool to be
able to do that in linux
so this makes it really easy and another
cool thing is once you
put those isos in you don't need to
flash it or anything like that
if you want to upgrade an iso so if
you have ubuntu 20.04 and you want to
put ubuntu
22.04 when that comes out you just
delete the old and put in the new drag
and drop it's really that easy
all right so we are going to be trying
this out on this thinkpad
right here uh we have our usb drive so
let's go ahead
and plug this on into the computer open
it
up and turn her on so for me it's f12
all right and i'm going to want to go
ahead and select this first
option here which is the kingston data
traveler for you it will
probably or may be different and here is
our venn toy boot menu with all of the
isos that we went ahead and added
including our fedora endeavor os manjaro
cute fish and actually let's just go
ahead
and jump into manjaro cute fish just so
you guys can kind of see this firing up
a
linux distribution let's go with the
open source drivers
all right we can see it booting up here
and there we go we are now
in manjaro cute fish so what i'm
actually gonna do real quick is power
this down and let's let's boot into
windows real quick
and down here near the bottom we have
our windows iso so let's go ahead and
highlight that
hit enter and we should be jumping into
the windows installation
all right there's our windows logo and
here we are
we could begin the windows installation
process if we
wanted to but i do not so let's not do
that
and in this ventoy menu not only can you
select the
iso images that you went ahead and
loaded up but we have a couple
other tools and options such as the
local boot
if we hit f4 we have a tree view if we
hit f3
if we go ahead and hit f5 it will take
us to some tools
including keyboard layouts display
configuration settings
and a couple other things so there are
some additional options
in addition to the wonderful iso
booting functions so overall i am
incredibly happy i found this tool
uh instead of having usbs everywhere i'm
just going to have this one
i'm going to keep all my isos on it it's
going to make my life
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