to install a fresh debian 13.0 I know ventoy. Do you use something else? why?

can I use gparted on ventoy to resize partitions on a notbook?

  • ikidd@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    OK, does Ventoy now include tools of some sort and not just a way to boot ISOs? Because as far as I know, it just boots LiveUSB images you place on it. If one of those happens to have partitioning tools, you’re using the tools included in that distro.

  • monovergent 🛠️@lemmy.ml
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    glim is like Ventoy, but built on GRUB with much cleaner code and no blobs. Doesn’t work with as many ISOs though.

    Any way you boot it, gparted should work just fine from a live ISO.

    If you’re just testing things out, Ventoy should be fine. If you want full assurance nothing fishy is going on when installing, do it the old way and dd the image to the USB.

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    3 days ago

    I’ve used a solution in the past looking like this:

    /dev /sdb1 EFI

    /dev/sdb2 FAT

    put grub on the efi partition, and let it chainload any iso I choose from sdb2

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    3 days ago

    You do not need ventoy (or any other toy) to install Linux on your computer.

    Why not just write to USB directly?

    cp debian.iso /dev/sdX

    I’m sure this is one of the alternatives recommended by Debian itself, where you get the .iso.

    • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
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      2 days ago

      Why not just write to USB directly?

      cp debian.iso /dev/sdX

      Because one single character typo and you just wiped out your system drive or some secondary HDD. It’s much safer to use a tool like Etcher.

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    3 days ago

    can I use gparted on ventoy to resize partitions on a notbook?

    Yes, you can use the gparted ISO on ventoy or any other live ISO that has gparted to resize partitions.

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    3 days ago

    You would be better served by asking questions in the existing post, instead of starting multiple new ones. Besides, these questions were already answered.