desktop dl too big

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Gene,

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 at 14:20, gene heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On 11/17/24 08:25, Colin Law wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 at 12:33, gene heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> At 5.8GB, will not fit on 4.7G DVD+RW
> >>
> >> Can I use a 4TB sata-iii drive if I can con my bios into booting from
> >> it? Or do I need blue-ray and media. Thanks.
> >
> > Use Ventoy and put it on a USB stick
> >
> > Colin L.
> >
> Not fam with Ventoy, it does what? 16 G usb sticks aren't a problem
> other than I haven't convinced this asus bios to use them..


See https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
It is special software allowing you to store multiple iso files (and other
types of files, I only use it for isos) on the same USB memory stick.

You use Ventoy's software to format a USB flash drive. My understanding of
it is that it creates 2 partitions on the drive. One of them is for
Ventoy's working and the other, labelled "VENTOY", is for you to store your
iso files on. With that done, you can boot it like any other USB flash
drive except this time round, you get a menu of the stored files and you
can choose one of them to run.

I find this particularly useful for dealing with Ubuntu iso files.

Shameless plug. I also have a page about various free software here:
https://github.com/ian-bruntlett/TECH-Manuals/blob/main/tm-free-software.md

HTH!


Ian
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