Carrying around lots of USB sticks would be bulky, but somehow I expect it to be more reliable than Ventoy - my experience with the Zalman ZM-VE350 has never been reliable enough to replace an external CD drive. OPTION TWOTo Manually Create a Bootable UEFI USB Flash Drive. I wish there were a bundle pack of USB drives with installers for all Windows and Mac OS versions, so I could just pick out the right installer and install. See also for Debiandog history: Here DebianDog full credits: Here Thread on new Puppy. As for why you'd want various Linux distros, I imagine it's a similar platform-sensitivity issue. Some only boot Win10, others only Win7 (圆4 or x32), and the oldest only XP. I regularly find old laptops in the trash, and friends like it very much when I repair them and give them away. In the new command line window that opens, to determine the USB flash drive number or drive letter, at the command prompt, type list disk, and then click ENTER.
Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator. The laptop has a 2 TB drive, and a lot of legacy software just in case I need to open some obscure file (e.g. Insert a USB flash drive into a running computer. It's been useful to boot into WinXP to play AoE or WoW, or Mac OS 10.9 to run p0sixspwn to jailbreak an iPhone 4S.
