![]() ![]() Open terminal and do '$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox' ģ. Boot the Mint liveCD from the USB drive - tutorial on how to create it linked above and bear in mind that, as you are running a liveCD with no persistence, everything is volatile and will vanish upon rebooting, unless you take care to save it to external storage Ģ. VirtualBox from the official Mint repositoryġ. Ventoy v1.0.24 installed as bootloader Lenovo T460s with Kingstom NVMe with BIOS set to legacy mode This setup might be suitable to few but is ideal for my purpose of not messing up with other OSes while allowing for freely testing with whatever wild experiences I may come up - in case something goes seriously wrong (it did, already) and having kept the original untouched volume, reverting to a working system is a simple as copying back the VHD, overwriting the faulty one.Ī) I used a Mint liveCD ISO because I am used to working with it and know everything just works, but nothing prevents you from using Q4OS liveCD itself ī) This process is somewhat involved as it requires a lot of small steps but overall it is fairly easy and simple, as it's nothing more than an adaptation of the official procedure (as explained at ) andĬ) I'm using an old version of Ventoy as the main bootloader because when setup in internal storage it doesn't throw any weird errors, which is something that changed in more recent versions. It's a tool that allows you to put ISO images directly on your device, and it does so without over complicating the process, without being intimidating (even for new users), and all while being completely free and open-source.Prompted by a message about dual booting elsewhere in the forum, I decided to share my recent recipe for setting up Q4OS in a virtual hard disk, which is nothing more than a file in your drive. ![]() It may not be the oldest or the most popular tool in the business, but the way Ventoy works and what it can do is remarkable. Ventoy is a unique, interesting, and powerful tool for creating bootable USB devices. The app also comes with support for Secure Boot, support for changing the filesystem of the first partition, support for persistence in the case of some Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint), and support for auto-installation.įor the full list of features (and trust us, there not a few), as well as some very useful documentation sections, you can check out the project's official website. Probably the most impressive feature of Ventoy is the fact that it supports pretty much any OS you can think of (up to 1000+ ISO files tested with success). In addition, know that both MBR and GPT partition styles are supported, and the app also comes with support for most x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI, and MIPS64EL UEFI. The app can also be installed on the USBs, local disks, SSDs, NVMes, and pretty much any type of SD Cards. ![]() You can also browse and boot ISO, WIN, IMG, VHD(x), and EFI files in and from your local disk (without the need for extraction). Here's how it works: you copy as many image files on the device as you like, and the app provides you with a neat boot menu from where you can select them (upon restarting your computer, of course). With the basics out of the way, we can now talk about Ventoy's other features that, trust us on this one, only make it better. Long story short, with Ventoy, you can boot into different versions of Windows or/and different Linux distributions FROM THE SAME USB DEVICE, and without having to format the disk over and over. This not only means that it's faster, but it also means that you can place multiple ISO images on the USB device. Ventoy is special in this regard, since it basically puts the ISO images on the drive, without having to extract them. While typical apps for creating bootable USD devices (usually using ISO images) work by extracting the contents first. To answer your question, you should be interested in checking out Ventoy because it's different from other apps of this sort. It's called Ventoy, it's totally free, open-source, and it's capable of running on most Linux distributions and Windows alike. ![]() If we were to tell you that there's a new tool for creating bootable USB drives that's worth checking out, you would most probably be asking yourself the following question: "why would I be interested since there already are many popular and well-established apps for this particular task such as Rufus, or balenaEtcher?"įair question, however, before anything else, let's meet the app in question. ![]()
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