Showing posts with label Ventoy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ventoy. Show all posts

Monday, February 6, 2023

Rice your PC to a Red Ferrari GhostBSD in 10 minutes flat!

Rice your PC to a Red Ferrari GhostBSD in 10 minutes flat!  



Enhance your PC from a Ford Festiva to a Red Ferrari.  

Test drive Ghostbsd.org/download  "latest" version in 10 minutes flat!    

 

This could be the most fun-to-drive Ferrari ever made

Fun to drive Yellow Ferrari 296 GTB:
Small but beautiful, the $568,300 petrol-electric 296 GTB is a triumph of design, super fast and may become as legendary as the fabled Dino.

Now that you are excited about an expensive car, lets go to the other end of price spectrum to nearly FREE and pull ourselves up out of the PC computer Windows(TM) Hole by our BOOTstraps ,  into a RICED RED gleaming fast GhostBSD operating system test drive in 10 minutes!   You do have 10 minutes to spare, correct?


https://ventoy.net/en/index.html  Here download and create a USB flash drive with Ventoy applications.   https://ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html  Windows and Linux users

Place  GhostBSD.org/download  "latest" February 2, 2023 version and a copy of a puppy linux image, too.   on the Ventoy USB flash drive
 
Now Boot from Ventoy USB Flash drive and select GhostBSD image to boot in your 4GB of dram memory the "live image".   No need to install first.  The GhostBSD.ISO image is copied into dram and run from dram memory.   After booting GhostBSD, pull the USB flash drive out from the computer.  It is not needed anymore.
Use the NetworkMgr  to connect via ethernet or via wifi.
 
pkg install  hw-probe
 
hw-probe -all -uploade    Create an entry to bsd-hardware.info  see an inventory of your computer and what BSD  device drivers exist for your PC hardware.

When you do wish to install to hard drive or ssd,  click on the GBI app icon. GhostBSD Installer and answer some questions.

 


 

Tools to write image or .ISO file to a USB Flash drive:

Here at balena we have thousands of users working through our getting started process and until recently we were embarassed about the steps that involved flashing an SD card. There was a separate track for each Mac/Windows/Linux and several manual and error-prone steps along the way.

To our surprise there was nothing out there that fit our needs. So we built Etcher, an SD card flasher app that is simple for end users, extensible for developers, and works on any platform.


Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

It can be especially useful for cases where:

  • you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
  • you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
  • you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
  • you want to run a low-level utility

Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!



Win32DiskImager open source tool to write .ISO files to USB Flash drive or microSD card

This program is designed to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. It is very useful for embedded development, namely Arm development projects (Android, Ubuntu on Arm, etc). Anyone is free to branch and modify this program. Patches are always welcome.

This release is for Windows 7/8.1/10. It will should also work on Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 (although not tested by the developmers). For Windows XP/Vista, please use v0.9 (in the files archive).

Can't Format USB Drive in Windows 10 BRITEC09 6 minute video



Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Venpy GUI frontend to Ventoy multiple .ISO file booter from USB Flash Drive

Using Venpy GUI frontend to tool Ventoy

 

Start with tool Ventoy https://ventoy.net/en/index.html  

Download Ventoy tool and install per the directions of the English Start Document. https://ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html

For Linux install of Ventoy

Download the installation package, like ventoy-x.x.xx-linux.tar.gz and decompress it. 
Download directions directory  https://ventoy.net/en/download.html

Find the file name you need from the github releases  directory

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases 

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases/download/v1.0.31/ventoy-1.0.31-linux.tar.gz

Change to your user home directory and  and "wget -c" to download

Extract Ventoy files tree, here to user directory "~"  or to /opt/ventoy

cd ~

wget -c  https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases/download/v1.0.31/ventoy-1.0.31-linux.tar.gz

tar xvfz ventory-1.0.31-linux-tar.gz

./Ventoy2disk -i -g -r 3072 /dev/sdb


 Work In Progress (WIP)  more to come,  This should get you started.


 

 

 

 

Add some Python wrapper GUI  https://github.com/smth-0/Venpy/ 

Change directory to your users home folder

   cd ~/. 

Clone the Venpy software with the following command.

git clone https://github.com/smth-0/Venpy.git

Change directory to Venpy

    cd Venpy

Check that you are using Python 3 version

python --version

Python 3.8.5



Warning,  you USB Flash Disk is going to be overwritten, so check and copy information off the Flash Disk to a safe location.

Check the /dev/sdX   device name with either one of the 2 commands below:

lsblk   

blkid

Issue this CLI command to start Venpy as a root user

sudo python main.py