

I assumed that no matter what you called them it would always load the most recently created one or something because I was never given the option to choose them. On the USB i kept making new saves and calling them different things but I did not realize that they where not actually being saved on the exFAT ventoy drive. Where it is actually being placed, could be causing issues being found and used. You could actually be writing over the same single default named save. If the save is made using only the default name. That is an option when you make the save. I actually slowly came around to realizing how useful having an operating system on a usb can be lol.Įach one has to have an additional name on it. I'm not really sure what you mean though about formatting the first partition? Wouldn't that reformat ventoy and make it (the ventoy) not work? Or would it magically somehow go from exFAT to ext4 without destroying any of the files already on it? Is there any way to point to a save in a different drive that does have the correct filesystem? Or does the pupsave have to be on the same drive as the puppy is being booted from? I'm probably just going to flash a new drive to be completely ext4 with just puppy on it and no ventoy and just have a drive solely for puppy lol. Yep this is the reason! I realized that on the puppy from ventoy I couldn't mount the first partition because it is in exfat. It should have the info, for where the save is being placed. When you run the save process and made the save. I am guessing, any saves you had made, are being placed on the computers, internal drive. This will also give you option to make the save a file or a folder.

The option, to place the save on this partition, should be offered. Use some program like Gparted, to change the format of this first partition. So, do this before you put any ISOs on this first partition.
Ventoy json iso#
You just need to copy iso files to this partition. The 1st partition was formated with exFAT filesystem. UEFI Secure Boot supported (since 1.0.After using Ventoy to setup the USB drive.Īfter the installation is complete, the USB drive will be divided into 2 partitions. The program supports ISO files over 4 GB as well native UEFI and Legacy BIOS and it works with dozens of operating systems, as the developer states there have been more than 160 files tested.įast (limited only by the speed of copying iso file)ĭirectly boot from iso file, no extraction needed It is worth mentioning that the tool allows you to add as many ISO files as you want, case in which, you are welcomed by a menu following the boot. Therefore, the OS can determine that the data is booted from a virtual disk, find the source medium needed for the operation and continue to boot without having to create the standard hook, as with the classic booting. The idea behind the program is different and entails that the information is saved to runtime memory before booting. While there are numerous tools that create bootable USB, most of them rely on the OS's kernel which needs to access the hardware storage media for the source. Instead, you simply insert the USB in the dedicated port and reboot your PC. Reinstalling your operating system via a bootable USB comes with the advantage that you do not need to spend time formatting the disk. Ventoy is a lightweight tool that provides a quick way to make bootable USB drives from ISO files.
