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Hey!
ventoy and balenaEtcher and mintStick and Plop and ohMyMultiboot and CapserAintYerFriend…
lead to a less-than-ideal outcome.
Recommending them (other than for exceptional cases, e.g. Plop!) is a DISSERVICE.https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/drag-and-drop-iso-to-usb-can-boot-multiple-isos/#post-44057
The Ventoy part works as advertised, allowing dynamically choosing any ISO from USB drive, including an antiX iso. BUT, an antiX booted this way does NOT have all the writable features available from a standard antiX liveUSB. So, Ventoy does not bring real value to my daily antiX workflow, and remains just a toy (pun not intended) to host a couple other distro for me.
reposting here my previous antixforum post, quoting BitJam, the primary developer of the antiX Live system
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/drag-and-drop-iso-to-usb-can-boot-multiple-isos/#post-44048
^— one of my several previous posts on this subject so, yeah, it’s exasperating to find again today that this info needs to be repeated, reposted.https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=59905
by BitJam » Tue Aug 18, 2020
the Ventoy Github site says:
“Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.”
This is the old “boot from iso mode” which we support but do not recommend. We offer a “fromiso=<file>” boot option for this but I imagine Ventoy is using grub to mount the iso file automatically. Once you get it to boot (we have Grub experts here who may be able to help you with the grub entry if it’s not working) then you can add one of the following boot options to specify a read-write persistence partition where we can store our persistence files:pdev=xxxx (the persistence partition name such as sdb1 or /dev/sdb1)
puuid=xxxx (the UUID of the persistence partition)
plab=xxxx (the label of the persistence partition)The first time persistence is enabled we will create the persistence files for you if they don’t already exist. So all you need to do is point us to a read/write partition with one of the options above and you can also specify the form of persistence you want to use (with another option) if you don’t like the default. Normally we offer to save any boot parameters you used but booting directly from iso makes this either very difficult or impossible.
We support booting from iso file but we don’t recommend it because it’s not compatible with many of our extensive live-usb features. For example the live-remaster tool does not work with direct booting from an iso file. You could probably do this on your own by first making an iso snapshot and then manually copying the iso snapshot file overwriting the original iso file.
IF you want to try our extensive live-usb features then we recommend you use the live-usb-maker tool which comes with MX and antiX Linux. There is also an AppImage available if you want to run it on another Linux distro. Many people only run MX/antiX live using persistence and remastering to keep their changes. We tried to make this a “distro development tool” for creating your own customized version of antiX or MX. The constraints of booting directly from an iso file conflict with this distro development approach and also conflict with many of our other advanced features. It’s sort of like trying to combine a school bus with a Ferrari.
If onboarding from windows O/S,
“rufus” http://rufus.ie/ is a suitable utility
(skip the “setup persistence” option within rufus, during antiX liveboot you will, optionally, setup persistence)If onboarding from another linux distribution, live-usb-maker is THE ideal utility to use.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/live-usb-maker-tool-now-available-as-an-appimage
.Can anyone help or point to any resources to help with this I’m running out of ideas?
Basically trying to be careful and test stuff on a VM before committing to real machine. I have an iso of the running machine and was hoping that when I go for a reinstall I can just use this iso which has been used with the live usb maker so that I can install the system as is. So in the virtual machine it boots ok (no option to install straight off from boot menu) I can login so tried as some have suggested elsewhere to use terminal and do maninstall.
All goes well with maninstall until I get to the point where it says unable to create user passwords (I don’t want to do that accounts already in image? So just give a random name like test). Has anyone managed to get this to work, is it just a VM thing?
Currently my live machine has a Ubuntu partition and a MacOS Snow leopard partition and I want to get rid of Ubuntu which I can use gparted to do but then want to use the unused space to give Antix. If can’t be done or too complicated that’s fine and that’s where the reinstall comes in but don’t really want to have to set everything back up if I can restore it.
I hope this makes sense I just seem to be confusing myself now and don’t want to reinvent the wheel if someone else can help.