A far far better way to get EasyOS working under Ventoy

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HarveyH
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A far far better way to get EasyOS working under Ventoy

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Ignore my previous long-ass way and work-around to get EasyOS working under Ventoy. I found a *much* easier method in an old post from Barry. No intermediate flash drive or "work-around" needed.
ty, Mate

# truncate -s 8G easy-6.0-amd64.img
# sync

I tried it with "32G". I was able to copy 26 Gigs of files into the resulting EOS system, so yeah, it works.

I did this with Ventoy 1.0.99 and EasyOS 6.0. YMMV

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Re: A far far better way to get EasyOS working under Ventoy

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but using 64G (on a new img file of course) does NOT work. It cant find /etc/fstab. Huh!
Well, 8G and 32G work so its all good.

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Re: A far far better way to get EasyOS working under Ventoy

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Update: I was playing around with different sizes for that "G" parameter and noticed that the "truncate" command only makes the file *look* larger; it does not actually make it physically larger and take up more space on the disk. The solution appears to be to put the original EasyOS image file on some other drive, run the "truncate" command on it, then move it to your Ventoy drive*. The move forces the system to create the larger file.

The title of this thread still holds though. Even with this extra step, it's still a way easier method.

* or make a copy. As long as you cause the system create a new file, all is well. The new one will be the actual size it claims to be.

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