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What's everyone's favourite "oh shit" live ISO? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kelvie@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been using gparted live for the most part to repair all sorts of stuff, but I'm wondering if anyone else has any other more modern recommendations, preferably even ones with Wifi or more graphics card support!

I also find installing deb packages to be way slower than they should be on a modern system (what are deb packages doing that alpine apk and arch packages don't??)

Bonus if they boot fast, too.

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[–] thenicnet@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll second ventroy. It actually just works.
I have a 256GB usb stick loaded with various install isos. It's great being able to just copy over the iso instead of having to image them every time I need one.

[–] innercitadel 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does that work exactly? Do you partition the USB drive and make Ventoy bootable in one partition and then put the isos on the other partition or something?

[–] cave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's been a while since I set mine up but iirc yes. Either that or ventoy creates a partition itself during install specifically that it searches to populate the list when you boot it. The nice thing beyond that is it even lets you explore other disks on the system. So if you have other isos on an unencrypted drive installed in the computer you can also browse to that and boot from it.

[–] innercitadel 4 points 1 year ago

This is one of those things I didn't know I needed. I have so many usb sticks lying around with various troubleshooting isos. This is a game changer.

[–] thenicnet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's exactly how it works. And every time you boot to the USB drive you're presented a boot menu with a list of isos. You pick the iso you want and then it boots normally to that iso.

So it's two pieces of magic that make my life easy.

  1. I just copy the iso to the USB drive.
  2. The boot menu is automatically refreshed every time you boot using it. No updating the menu required!

Its one of those things, once I started using it, I can't imagine how I worked without it.

[–] dpflug@hachyderm.io 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@thenicnet
How does that work? Is it loading the whole ISO into memory?

Edit: usually not: https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_memdisk.html
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