How to boot multiple ISOs from a flash drive with Ventoy

Ventoy had its first release at the beginning of April 2020. Its support across the Windows and Linux environment is already astonishingly large. I’m currently testing version 1.0.0.06 and below, you’ll see how to use it on Windows and Linux.

Windows

1. Download Ventoy from the official website.
2. Extract the .zip archive.

   

3. Run Ventoy2Disk.exe (it will ask to Run as an Administrator).

   

   Once you’ve launched Ventoy, you will need to install it in your flash drive (it will take just a few seconds while it formats your flash drive and creates its own partitions).
4. Copy your ISOs into your USB drive.

   

5. Boot your PC from the USB drive.

   

Linux

1. Download Ventoy from the official website with wget inside your terminal. So, you’ll need to:
1. Get the direct link from the website by running your web browser and going to the Ventoy download page.
2. There, right-click the Ventoy Linux version and just copy link address.

   

3. Inside your terminal, type:
wget http://www.ventoy.net/en/download/ventoy-1.0.06-linux.tar.gz Copy!
4. Extract the .tar.gz archive:
tar -xzvf ventoy-1.0.06-linux.tar.gz Copy!
5. Enter Ventoy’s newly created folder:
cd ventoy-1.0.06-linux Copy!
2. Find out what’s your flash drive’s full path. For example, it could be located at /dev/sdb/. You can do this by displaying all of your hardware information and search for your your flash drive’s name and its fulll path (again, you need to look for a device that looks like /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc).
3. Once you’ve got the full path of your flash drive, in your terminal type:
sudo sh Ventoy.sh -i /dev/sdb Copy!





4. Now that Ventoy has been installed, all you need to do is copy your favourite ISOs straight into your flash drive.
5. Restart your PC and make sure you’ve set your BIOS to boot first from your flash drive.