Carrying around lots of USB sticks would be bulky, but somehow I expect it to be more reliable than Ventoy - my experience with the Zalman ZM-VE350 has never been reliable enough to replace an external CD drive. My understanding is that the iso files should go into the partition with the ventoy instance, but its not big enough to fit either. When ventoy installed it went into the 32M partition. Trying to run it directly from a USB drive (using dd) didn’t even get past initial bootloader, while via Ventoy it scanned all my hardware, switched to graphical mode momentarily, then prompted me for boot device, which I didn’t know so I could not continue. I have the iso files in a separate folders from the ventoy instance. I wish there were a bundle pack of USB drives with installers for all Windows and Mac OS versions, so I could just pick out the right installer and install. The Ventoy menu looks normal, but no usable. As for why you'd want various Linux distros, I imagine it's a similar platform-sensitivity issue. Some only boot Win10, others only Win7 (圆4 or x32), and the oldest only XP. I regularly find old laptops in the trash, and friends like it very much when I repair them and give them away. The laptop has a 2 TB drive, and a lot of legacy software just in case I need to open some obscure file (e.g. It's been useful to boot into WinXP to play AoE or WoW, or Mac OS 10.9 to run p0sixspwn to jailbreak an iPhone 4S.
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