Download from official releases or get a recent build that may have fixes not officially released yet.
Extract contents of the downloaded zip file to get access to the executable binaries.
Run the GUI: Click on Ventoy2Disk.exe
- Pick a disk from the drop-down.
- Choose to Install or Update.
Run the GUI: sudo ./VentoyGUI.x86_64
- Pick a disk from the drop-down.
- Choose to Install or Update.
OR
Run via CLI:
df -h
to get list of mounted disks.- When updating, find the
VTOYEFI
/Ventoy
disks. Normally they'll be something like/dev/sdb1
and/dev/sdb2
. The1
/2
at the end of the disk names are partitions, so you'll use/dev/sdb
.
- When updating, find the
cd
into the unzipped ventoy folder and run:./Ventoy2Disk.sh
to get a list of available flags.sudo ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -l /dev/sdb
to check/verify the version that's currently installed.sudo ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -u /dev/sdb
to update (it'll tell you what version it's updating from/to, and prompt you to accept).
- There should be two mounted partitions
VTOYEFI
andVentoy
. Don't mess withVTOYEFI
. Your ISOs and other User files will go onVentoy
. - You can configure via a GUI with VentoyPlugson, but in my case I just wanted to specify what folder to scan for ISOs.
- Create two folders at the root of
Ventoy
,ISOs
andventoy
. - Inside of
ventoy
, createventoy.json
. - Add this to
ventoy.json
:{ "control": [ { "VTOY_DEFAULT_SEARCH_ROOT": "/ISOs" } ] }
- Create two folders at the root of