![]() ![]() The concept of Ventoy is so simple that it is surprising that nobody had thought about this system before. In addition, they can be mixed without any problem. Also, several types of ISO's are supported, from Linux, BSD and even Windows. So, we who use Linux have been orphaned of some solution that was practical, easy and that effectively worked.Įnter Ventoy, a program that manages the use of the USB flash drive regarding boot management, the flash drive being just one ISO, or multi ISO's. Really, it did not improve as it should, lagging behind other solutions. On Linux, we had Unetbootin, which was a very good tool, but which did not continue development in the jump from 32 to 64 bits. Just for comparison, Windows has Wubi, Rufus, Yumi, Universal USB Installer, LiLi USB Creator, and the list goes on and on. Either you don't have all the features of the Windows programs, or it's complicated and laborious to make it work. Aside from the nostalgic unetbootin, the bootable USB solutions on Linux are always lame. I'll be around for maybe an hour (you will be 2 hours ahead of me, I am in Queensland) before I have to cook tea, gotta go make my girl a cuppa after her nap.īTW - was using UUI yesterday and today on another project - Persistence has value on a USB stick, but not on an SSD.USB flash drives on Linux have always been problematic. Is there a particular Linux you have in mind (I am thinking Uni here), or what did you try to put on?Ībsolute necessity is to have a contingency plan for the Surface OS (is it like Windows 10, or other?) so that experimenting with the LInux voodoo does not lose you essential data. Seems to me that you could install something like Rufus, or Balena-Etcher on the surface, and then use one of those to put a full Linux install on the SSD. This Dell has a WD My Book 4TB hooked to it, with 30 or more on it, and the Toshiba Satellite laptop in the Laundry has about 40, on a 1 TB SATA HDD. I run about 90 Linux all up, over 2 rigs. ![]() dev/sdb3 is Windows 10, and I have basically neutered it to 55 GiB, to allow for more Linuxes. Honestly I have been looking for answers for countless hours and Im open for anything, I feel like what Im asking for isnt to much: An external drive that holds a persistent Linux mint environment that I can just plug in and run Mint from. Maybe you have a bootable usb program you would recommend that allows persistent partitions? So my situation is that I have a m.2 SSD in an external enclosure which I use as a bootable usb with my Linux mint iso, however whenever I boot to it, it says the storage is full, there is another partition on that ssd that is ext4 which pops up as an external drive and ultimately if I could set that "external" drive to hold and be the root of everything then my goal would be done.Īnd thank you for the misapprehension, the current usb persistent partition boot creator i use (universal usb installer) only lets you set a 4gb persistent partition and I would like to use more of my 256gb ssd. So im using Linux Mint only because that is what we use at the university labs at the moment, so my life story is that I don't want to go to the Uni labs every time I want to do my specific homework labs and assignments, I would like to have that environment at home so i can work from home if that makes sense. Wow hi Chris, that was awesome, it put a smile on my face thank you. Or is there something I can do to have my external SSD as a bootable linux enviorment. My goal was to have this external 256gb SSD, and when I needed to run linux I just plugged it into my laptop, booted to it and had Linux without messing with the original drive on my laptop.ĭo you know any soultion for booting from windows on a bootable usb other than FAT32? As others have said that UEFI cant boot from NTFS. So whats the problem you ask? For some silly reason, windows or specifically surface can only boot from a usb formatted as FAT32, and as you know FAT32 only supports up to 4GB, which is pointless to be used on a 256gb drive and even more pointless to be used as a permanent Linux environment solution. That worked fine and I can run linux mint on my laptop using this external SSD enclosure. So I have a windows surface book and need to run Linux on it for university, however, im stubborn and don't want to dual boot or only run Linux by itself, instead, I have a bootable USB drive that I used to test with linux mint, when formatted with FAT32 that worked fine, however I needed a more permanent soultion so I took an old m.2 SSD I had, put that in an external enclosure, formatted it to FAT32 and used universal usb installer to install the mint iso file. ![]()
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