From: nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com   
      
   Josef Möllers wrote:   
   > On 26.04.23 06:23, Gordon wrote:   
   >> As suggested Ventoy is your first port of call. However some iso fail to   
   >> boot from Ventoy, only a few. In this case Etcher is the second port of   
   >> call.   
   >   
   > These are names that do not mean anything to me (Europe/Germany), so   
   > I'll try a generic stick and go from there if that fails.   
      
   Ventoy and Etcher aren't brands of USB sticks, but bootloaders which can   
   be installed on a USB stick, which in turn boot ISO files saved to the   
   stick.  After installing the bootloader to a USB stick, you can just   
   copy ISO files onto the stick as normal files, and choose which one to   
   boot each time.  It saves having to install just one ISO at a time onto   
   the stick, particularly when trying ISOs for different distros for   
   example, but it also makes it easy to just copy the ISO file for a new   
   version and boot it to try or install.   
      
   Pretty much any USB stick large enough to hold several ISO files should   
   do.  The larger the drive, the more ISO files you'll be able to keep on   
   there to choose from when you boot it.  A decent USB 3 stick should be   
   faster, assuming the PC also has a USB 3 port, but even a cheap USB 2   
   one would probably be faster than booting from DVD.   
      
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