Brian Masinick
I already ran a search and found each of the tools that people have wrote about here.
I’ll try a few more searches – and I can poke around in the days ahead – to see if anyone else has written any scripts that can be freely used (and visibly examined) to see how these techniques have been implemented.
However Ventoy works, it must be some kind of large file system or container that accepts input sources (and if it’s “smart”, evaluates those sources to make sure they are “supported” by the tool), then adds the next source to the list of items in the collection. If they are all ISO images or other valid computer system formats that it recognizes, it also provides some mechanisms to choose from them, so that you can either access one of them or run it live.
There is certainly more than one way to do this (and I imagine theirs is “proprietary”). If it works, that’s great. For me, without getting into either the code or the product description, I have no idea how they actually implement their solution, but it has to be something that maintains the integrity of the installable, boot-able instance.
Glad it works for you! 🙂
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Brian Masinick
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