tech.linux.debian.installing.ventoy

Created Friday 26 September 2025

Installing Ventoy on a flashdrive using Debian 13 so I can put Debian on the Ventoy

Ventoy https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html
I'm on linux so I get the linux.tar.gz

Debian iso https://www.debian.org/distrib/
Find wherever they put the net install iso amd64 link.
https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-13.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Setting up Ventoy on Debian

   56  mkdir flashdrive
   57  cd flashdrive/
   58  tar -xf ../ventoy-1.1.07-linux.tar.gz 
   59  ls
   60  cd ventoy-1.1.07/
   61  ls
   62  lsblk
   63  sudo umount /dev/sdb1
   64  ls
   68  ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -i /dev/sdb
   70  apt install parted fdisk
   71  ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -i /dev/sdb
   72  parted
   73  ls /sbin/parted 
   76  ln --help | head
   77  ln -s /sbin/parted /bin/parted
   78  ls /bin/parted
   79  /bin/parted
   83  ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -i /dev/sdb
   84  apt install -y dosfstools
   85  apt autoremove
   86  ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -i /dev/sdb
   87  apt install vfat
   88  ln -s /sbin/mkfs.vfat  /bin/mkfs.vfat
   89  ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -i /dev/sdb

It couldn't find parted or fdisk but they were installed. They weren't at the right path so I lazily symlinked them at the right path to where they were. Then it needed mkfs.vfat so I had to find what package provides that, then symlink that too. Or you could modify your PATH.
Update: do su - instead of just su. I tend to forget.

tech.linux.debian.finding.packages

Then you dump your iso on the flashdrive.

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