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How To Create A Multiboot USB With Ventoy Using Linux

Environment

These instructions will show how you can create a multiboot USB flash drive with Windows 10 and Arch Linux using a Linux terminal and desired web browser.

Preparation

  1. Download Microsoft Windows ISO.

    Download the desired Windows ISO by going to Download Windows 10 Disc Image (ISO File). Make sure to note the SHA256 hash under "Verify your download" for your downloaded file.

    1. Select the desired edition.

      Windows 10

    2. Select the desired language.

      English

    3. Download ISO.

      Win10_20H2_v2_English_x64.iso

  2. Download Arch Linux ISO.

    Download the desired Arch Linux ISO by going to Arch Linux - Downloads and make sure to also download sha1sum.txt.

  3. Verify Windows Download. 

    $ sha256sum ~/Downloads/Win10_20H2_v2_English_x64.iso

    6c6856405dbc7674eda21bc5f7094f5a18af5c9bacc67ed111e8f53f02e7d13d  Win10_20H2_v2_English_x64.iso

    Note

    Visually compare the outputted hash above to the hash located on the download page. If hashes match then the download was successful.

  4. Verify Arch Linux Download. 

    $ sha1sum -c sha1sum.txt

    archlinux-2021.02.01-x86_64.iso: OK
sha1sum: archlinux-bootstrap-2021.02.01-x86_64.tar.gz: No such file or directory
archlinux-bootstrap-2021.02.01-x86_64.tar.gz: FAILED open or read
sha1sum: WARNING: 1 listed file could not be read

    Note

    In this context only one file was downloaded, "archlinux-2021.02.01-x86_64.iso". Therefore a successful download is when seeing "archlinux-2021.02.01-x86_64.iso: OK".

Instructions

Arch Linux

  1. Install Ventoy. 

    $ pikaur -Sy ventoy-bin

    Note

    AUR helper required per these instructions.

  2. Plug-in desired USB flash drive.

  3. Locate device name of USB flash drive using on of the following commands. 

    $ mount

    $ lsblk

    Note

    In these instructions the USB flash drive device name is assumed to be "/dev/sde".

  4. Install Ventoy to USB. 

    # ventoy -i /dev/sde

    **********************************************
    Ventoy: 1.0.34  x86_64
    longpanda admin@ventoy.net
    https://www.ventoy.net
**********************************************

Disk : /dev/sde
Model: SanDisk Cruzer Glide 3.0 (scsi)
Size : 57 GB
Style: MBR


Attention:
You will install Ventoy to /dev/sde.
All the data on the disk /dev/sde will be lost!!!

Continue? (y/n) y

  5. Continue with installation. 
    All the data on the disk /dev/sde will be lost!!!
Double-check. Continue? (y/n) y

    Create partitions on /dev/sde by parted in MBR style ...
Done
mkfs on disk partitions ...
create efi fat fs /dev/sde2 ...
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
success
mkexfatfs 1.3.0
Creating... done.
Flushing... done.
File system created successfully.
writing data to disk ...
sync data ...
esp partition processing ...

Install Ventoy to /dev/sde successfully finished.

  6. Move ISOs to the USB flash drive. 

    $ mv ~/Downloads/Win10_20H2_v2_English_x64.iso /run/media/adamsdesk/Ventoy/
$ mv ~/Downloads/archlinux-2021.02.01-x86_64.iso /run/media/adamsdesk/Ventoy/

    Note

    The destination of your USB flash drive mount point (/run/media/adamsdesk/Ventoy/) may vary.

Debian

  1. Download Ventoy.

    Download the latest Ventoy release by going to Releases - ventoy/Ventoy - GitHub. Make sure to note the SHA-256 hash for your downloaded file (e.g. ventoy-1.0.35-linux.tar.gz).

  2. Verify Ventoy download. 

    $ sha256sum ~/Downloads/ventoy-1.0.35-linux.tar.gz

    62d611de2addc9e86ec9bc8129352505cf5174e1de4b39da2019ab9898d21009  ventoy-1.0.35-linux.tar.gz

    Note

    Visually compare the outputted hash above to the hash located on the download page. If hashes match then the download was successful.

  3. Decompress downloaded archive. 

    $ tar -zxvf ventoy-1.0.35-linux.tar.gz

  4. Change directory. 
    $ cd ventoy-1.0.35/
  5. Plug-in desired USB flash drive.

  6. Locate device name of USB flash drive using on of the following commands. 

    $ mount

    $ lsblk

    Note

    In these instructions the USB flash drive device name is assumed to be "/dev/sde".

  7. Install Ventoy to USB. 

    # ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -i /dev/sde

    **********************************************
    Ventoy: 1.0.35  x86_64
    longpanda admin@ventoy.net
    https://www.ventoy.net
**********************************************

Disk : /dev/sde
Model: SanDisk Cruzer Glide 3.0 (scsi)
Size : 57 GB
Style: MBR

Attention:
You will install Ventoy to /dev/sde.
All the data on the disk /dev/sde will be lost!!!

Continue? (y/n) y

  8. Continue with Installation. 
    All the data on the disk /dev/sde will be lost!!!
Double-check. Continue? (y/n) y

    Create partitions on /dev/sde by parted in MBR style ...
Done
mkfs on disk partitions ...
create efi fat fs /dev/sde2 ...
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
success
mkexfatfs 1.3.0
Creating... done.
Flushing... done.
File system created successfully.
writing data to disk ...
sync data ...
esp partition processing ...

Install Ventoy to /dev/sde successfully finished.

  9. Move ISOs to the USB flash drive. 

    $ mv ~/Downloads/Win10_20H2_v2_English_x64.iso /run/media/adamsdesk/Ventoy/
$ mv ~/Downloads/archlinux-2021.02.01-x86_64.iso /run/media/adamsdesk/Ventoy/

    Note

    The destination of your USB flash drive mount point (/run/media/adamsdesk/Ventoy/) may vary.

Last update: February 14, 2021