Powered through and made a bootable Linux OS from a 256 Gb flash drive. However the flash drive now only has a capacity of 5 Mb (FAT). Did I screw up, or do I make another partition on the USB drive somehow? I was hoping to backup all my files to the USB in case I'm going to re-format the laptop <gasp> for Linux in the near future...these are not things to take lightly.
It should boot from it, I think it uses a single partition and it becomes hidden, that's why you can't use it, not entirely sure if that's it though, this method is ok when using a around 4GB pen drive, but yeah, losing all of the 265GB is a pain.
It's a different approach, and a much better one actually, it makes so you can boot ISO images without even having to burn them, you just install ventoy to your 256GB flash drive, then drop the linux images in the ISOS folder (that it will create)
Then you boot from the drive and you'll see a list of all the images you have there
You can also use the rest of the flash drive normally, it uses just a small portion of it for the bootable part
I'll explain how to use it step by step if you need it
I love this site and the knowledge warriors here. Thanks for the info. Time to resurrect all those sub-32 Gb flash drives laying around so I can help some folks out later, but I'l also look into Ventoy.
Powered through and made a bootable Linux OS from a 256 Gb flash drive. However the flash drive now only has a capacity of 5 Mb (FAT). Did I screw up, or do I make another partition on the USB drive somehow? I was hoping to backup all my files to the USB in case I'm going to re-format the laptop <gasp> for Linux in the near future...these are not things to take lightly.
It should boot from it, I think it uses a single partition and it becomes hidden, that's why you can't use it, not entirely sure if that's it though, this method is ok when using a around 4GB pen drive, but yeah, losing all of the 265GB is a pain.
Here's a much better solution for you https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
It's a different approach, and a much better one actually, it makes so you can boot ISO images without even having to burn them, you just install ventoy to your 256GB flash drive, then drop the linux images in the ISOS folder (that it will create)
Then you boot from the drive and you'll see a list of all the images you have there
You can also use the rest of the flash drive normally, it uses just a small portion of it for the bootable part
I'll explain how to use it step by step if you need it
+1 for Ventoy. It allows you to easily drop multiple distro ISOs so you can have one USB with a whole bunch of LiveUSB images to try out.
I love this site and the knowledge warriors here. Thanks for the info. Time to resurrect all those sub-32 Gb flash drives laying around so I can help some folks out later, but I'l also look into Ventoy.
No problem brother
Definitely do, ventoy is pretty sweet