Once exFAT installed, mount the usb drive partition ( in my case / dev/sdb1 ) with the following command: $ sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdb1 /mntĬopy as many ISO image files as long there is enough space on the USB drive. On Linux, exFAT has been supported with a special implementation called fuse-exfat. In order to mount an exFAT drive on Linux, you need to install fuse-exfat. To copy images to USB drive, usb drive has to be mounted as exfat filesystem. In this example, I are going to use Ubuntu ISO image, and Pop OS ISO image. Ventoy supported files are ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI.ĭownload the appropriate iso images from the vendor website. It supports creating a bootable USB drive with multiple ISO files (multiboot).Īll you need to do is to copy ISO images on the USB drive as regular files and boot them directly from a USB drive. /dev/sdb2 - This partition size of 32MB holds Ventoy bootloader files.Ĭreate a single USB drive for multiple ISO filesĪmong other tools, Ventoy is one of the best tools to create a bootable USB drive./dev/sdb1 - This presents the main partition, which needs to hold ISO image files for the OS and it's formatted with the exFAT format.Two disk partition created on a USB drive: Now run the installation script that is placed in ventoy directory named as Ventoy2Disk.sh. Go to the extracted directory: $ cd ventoy-1.0.39 tar.gz file downloaded: $ sudo tar -xf ventoy-1.0.39. Please make sure there is nothing important in the drive! It may be you will lose all data on the drive during Ventoy installation.ĭownload latest Ventoy from the official GitHub repo:Įxtract the. I am using an Ubuntu 20.04 machine for this ventoy installation. To install Ventoy on a USB drive, first plug in the USB drive in your computer. This helps to use a single USB for multiple Operating system installations. In this tutorial, I will explain how to create a multiboot USB in Linux using the Ventoy tool. This will end up with many bootable USB drives to keep. img file and then copy/unpack to a USB.Ĭommonly, at a time one ISO image is used in a USB and have to reformat drive each time to boot another Operating system. To create bootable USB download appropriate. A bootable USB is commonly used as an operating system installer.

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