Usb

One drive for every installer: Ventoy on an NVMe in a USB enclosure

When I installed Proxmox on my newest server, I didn’t write the installer to a USB stick. I picked it from a menu on a small drive that holds every installer I use. That drive runs Ventoy, and this post is about how it works and how I set it up.

What Ventoy is

Ventoy is “an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files” [1]. You install it on a drive once. After that, you copy ISO files onto the drive like any other files, and when you boot from it, Ventoy shows a menu of them. Pick one, and it boots.