Why do people need so many live images? I find that a bit strange tbh.

I agree with this, when you say: "dozens of live-linuxes".

But somebody, who is working in repair or service for computers would be happy to have an "All-in-one-stick", for example with:
- something like "System-Rescue-CD", not matter which one you prefer here
- a Windows-PE environment (or two or three)
- software for creating images of whole harddisks, like ACRONIS or what ever (may be also more than one for compatibilty-reasons)
- some diagnostics-programs

Of course "ventoy" does nothing, which one could not also do with SYSLINUX or GRUB! But it seems to be much more "comfortable"!

Best Regards, FM_81

But the Devuan ISO image has a rescue mode...

I understand your point. But I was thinking on fully graphical systems, like System Rescue CD, for instance. Sometimes I want to check a new computer, wipe out a hard drive, and prepare some unusual partition scheme. And using System Rescue CD (or Knoppix, or similar) for these tasks is very comfortable. And I don't want to talk of others OS we usually are not very fond of here ...

For personal 'rescue' purposes, I would use the same distro as was installed, if possible.

Is Ventoy really 'needed'? Probably not, but why not use it when it is available.

Why do people need so many live images? I find that a bit strange tbh.

Curiosity i suppose. I dont see any need for it myself. I will generally dd an iso to a stick and try it out then get rid of it. Except for knoppix releases cause they are invaluable and i generally collect each release on its own usb stick for historical reasons.

live rescue systems, just in case

But the Devuan ISO image has a rescue mode which lets you open a shell in the installed system with a working internet connection without having to manually chroot in with the API filesystems (bind) mounted. It's *much* easier and more convenient than random live ISO images.

Why do people need so many live images?

I have a bunch of USB devices with instalers of a few versions of Devuan, both 32 bits and 64 bits, and live rescue systems, just in case.
A solution like Ventoy could save me a few sticks. Using it is in my "to do" list.

I found through a lot of time consuming trial and error that the Guix distro will not install from a Ventoy stick, although the Guix live environment works fine on Ventoy.

(I only use a 16GB pendrive, but have plenty of choices to select from.)

Hello:

Anyone seen this?

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/10/ … foss_fest/

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Best,

A.

Ventoy is very good - been using it for a while. I have a 32 GB USB stick. If I want to try a new iso, just copy it onto the USB - no 'burning a USB' or anything. I have many things on there. I boot to it, and there's a menu of all the iso's, and you pick one and it boots. It is a marvel - it just works.

Anyone seen this?

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/10/ … foss_fest/

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Best,

A.